[Med-privacy] State Privacy Protections and Civil Suits Concerned with HIPAA Law

[Jeff Williams]

pmarshall and all,

pmarshall wrote:

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>> >>   This would indicate to me that either stronger or different
>> >>  medical
>> >>  privacy laws by state are needed or each state needs to enact
>> >>  better and perhaps stronger medical privacy
>> >>  practices/legislation..
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>> > Has generally been the case for some time....
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>>   Agreed.  However such privacy legislation seems to be heading
>> in the opposite direction...
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> Examples or such...?

Yes but not handy...

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>> >>   The alternative is a change to the Medical Privacy Act
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>> > Eh? What's that?
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> You mean the HIPAA Privacy Rule?

Yes and no.  Yes in that HIPAA is part of what I was referring
to...

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>> >>  which would
>> >>  also seem to be in conflict with the Patriot Act in some sections
>> >>  thereof...
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>> > The "change" or the "MPA?"
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>>   The change IMHO.  Conflicting security and privacy laws
>> cannot by definition be a good or best practice and function
>> cooperatively...
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> Where's the conflict with the Patriot Act?

They are fairly clearly outlined in the several of the sections of
Patriot Act currently under debate in congress currently...
I am not going outline all of them on this forum..

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>>  Stronger medical privacy serves as a tool
>> to fighting the war on terror, not lack there of...
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> How's that?

  The stronger the medical privacy provisions provided the less
chance of a potential terrorist can use such medical information as
leverage of influence on a targeted individual for nefarious or
harmful purposes...

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