DHHS: "Milestones in Health Information Privacy"

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

Milestones in Health Information Privacy


 May 1997            Report on Privacy and Health Research

 July 31, 1997       Protecting Privacy of Health Information:
                     Secretary Shalala's Speech at the National Press
                     Club

 September 11, 1997  Secretary Shalala's Recommendations for Privacy
                     legislation delivered to Congress

 September 11, 1997  Secretary Shalala's Testimony before the Senate
                     Committee on Labor & Human Resources.

 August 21, 1999     Deadline for Congressional action on privacy
                     legislation. If legislation to protect the
                     privacy of  individually identifiable health
                     information has not been enacted, the Secretary
                     of Health and Human Services is required
                     to promulgate such standards by regulation.

Last updated 3/23/98.