[Med-privacy] state laws

[Peter Marshall]

*** Commission Mulls State Medical Privacy Law Overrides ***

An advisory commission working to increase interoperability among the 
nation's health information systems may ask Congress to override state 
and local medical privacy laws when those laws are at variance with 
federal law. Differing state laws that protect the privacy of medical 
records is an obstacle to automated exchange of that information, 
according to members of the Commission on Systemic Interoperability. 
The 11-member commission is scheduled to deliver a report to the 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to Congress by 
October 2005. The commission is considering overriding state laws among 
its recommendations.

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