HIPAA re: comments on proposed med-privacy rules

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

Subject: HHS posts Privacy NPRM on Web
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:18:28 -0500
From: Bill Braithwaite <bbraithw@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: HIPAA-REGS@LIST.NIH.GOV

President Clinton announced last Friday that the first-ever set of national
standards to protect the privacy of American's personal health information
were to be published soon as a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in the
Federal Register. The standards apply to health information created by
health care providers, hospitals, health plans and health care
clearinghouses that is either transmitted or maintained electronically. The
proposed rule was published in the Federal Register today, November 3, 1999
on pages 59917 through 60065.

A summary and the full text of the proposed rule are now available on the
HHS Administrative Simplification website at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/
You can also submit your comments electronically on our website. If you do
this by subject area, your comments will go electronically directly to the
analysts who will be reading them and summarizing your comments for use in
the process that produces the final rule. We are looking forward to your
considered input.

Bill Braithwaite

P.S. Our external e-mail connection has not been functioning for some time -
my apologies for the tardiness of this announcement and the lack of response
for any e-mails you may have sent me recently.