Brief Summary of the Medical Privacy Rule

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumer protection.

Medical laws and legislation.

Privacy, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] [publisher not identified] 2003

Summary:

Describes the recently revised medical privacy rule published by HHS on Aug. 14, 2002, which updates a medical privacy rule issued by the Clinton Administration in Dec. 2000. Rule establishes a set of basic consumer protections and a series of regulatory permissions for uses and disclosures of protected health information

Notes:

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Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Brief Summary of the Medical Privacy Rule

Publisher Number:

CRS-2003-AML-0238

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