AMA: "Battle lines drawn over bills on medical records privacy"

[Peter Marshall <techdiff@ix.netcom.com>]

From: AMNews <AMNews@unity.ama-assn.org>
To: AMNews alert list
Subject: May 3: AMNews alert for May 10 issue
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 01:06:15 -0500

Top story: Battle lines drawn over bills on medical records privacy

The third Senate medical records privacy measure introduced this session of
Congress, the Bennett bill has more clearly drawn the lines between
organizations with competing interests in the debate, according to a report
in the May 10 issue of American Medical News.

Although all sides agree on the need for federal medical records
confidentiality legislation, they disagree on such fundamental issues as
whether federal law should preempt state rules and how to
handle patient consent for the release of health data. This report is the
week's top story on the AMNews Web site:

http://www.ama-assn.org/amnews