National Health Information Privacy Bill Generates Heat at SCAMC

National Health Information Privacy Bill Generates Heat at SCAMC

With the introduction of the Bennett bill in the U.S. Senate (S.1360-the Medical Records Confidentiality Act of 1995), a great deal of attention is being focused on the issue of health information privacy. This bill is the result of the work of a bipartisan group of people from publicand private-sector organizations who have been working together over the past two years (and longer for some) to...

National health information privacy and new federalism.

Personal privacy and common goods: a framework for balancing under the national health information privacy rule.

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information ("health data privacy regulations")' pursuant to a congressional mandate in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). 2 These regulations, promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), represent the first systematic national privacy protec-tions of health information. They p...

Health information privacy.

National Development Generates National Identities

The purpose of the article is to test the relationship between national identities and modernisation. We test the hypotheses that not all forms of identity are equally compatible with modernisation as measured by Human Development Index. The less developed societies are characterised by strong ascribed national identities based on birth, territory and religion, but also by strong voluntarist id...