[Med-privacy] med-privacy suit
pmarshall
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Sat, 03 Apr 2004 09:52:42 -0800
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<div class="blueLead">Judge Tosses Medical Privacy Lawsuit</div>
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<div class="black9ptbold">Judge Tosses Lawsuit That Says Medical
Privacy Rules Allow Too Much Access Without Consent</div>
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<font class="blueLinkNoStyle">PHILADELPHIA </font> <font
class="blueLinkNoStyle">April 2</font> — A judge threw out a federal
lawsuit Friday that claimed new medical privacy regulations allow too
much access to a person's health care records without their consent. </p>
<p>The plaintiffs sued the Department of Health and Human Services in
April, saying the department sabotaged a key privacy provision that
required a patient's written consent anytime confidential medical data
was released.</p>
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<p>The judge's pretrial ruling said doctors and patient advocates
failed to show the regulations were enacted improperly or were
unconstitutional. The rules took effect last spring.</p>
<p>An attorney for a coalition of groups that challenged the rules,
James Pyles, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Justice Department, which defended the
regulations on behalf of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy
Thompson, declined comment.</p>
<p>Defense lawyers said the law's overall effect was to give patients
unprecedented power to ensure that their records are distributed to as
small a circle of caregivers as possible.</p>
<p>U.S. District Judge Mary McLaughlin agreed the law benefited patient
privacy and said she could find no constitutional violation.</p>
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<div class="blacksmaller"><i>Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. </i></div>
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