Re: Proposed rules: "The Medical Privacy Scam"

[John Fraser <John.Fraser@MHDI.org>]

To Dawn Richardson and listserv people;

In MN we are also soliciting comments from the community on these proposed
rules.  Dawn has raised some interesting points in her email, but to be
proactive, I would suggest Dawn be specific about language changes to the
proposed rules that would tighten the privacy protections for individuals.  To
help everyone, I'd recommend that Dawn post them to this listserv as well, so we
and everyone else on the list could review them to see if her ideas could be
incorporated into our own comments back to DHHS.

John Fraser

Peter Marshall wrote:

> PRIVACY Forum Digest     Tuesday, 30 November 1999     Volume 08 : Issue 17
>                 (http://www.vortex.com/privacy/priv.08.17)
> Date:    Wed, 3 Nov 1999 02:30:37 -0600
> From:    "Dawn Richardson" <prove@swbell.net>
> Subject: Big Brother Wants Your Medical Records
>
> The Medical Privacy Scam: Big Brother Wants Your Medical Records
>
> by Dawn Richardson
>
> On Friday, Oct. 29th, President Clinton announced U.S. Department of Health
> and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala's proposed rules which claim
> to protect the privacy of Americans' personal health records that are either
> transmitted or maintained electronically.  These rules were published in the
> Federal Register today, November 3rd.
>

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