OT: Feds want to drop protection of privacy regarding medical data

[Glenn Williams]

The confidentiality release form a patient signs prior to release of  
medical records to a third-party provider or whatever, bears a footnote 
which cites the federal regs involved, or rather the section of the 
Federal Register which embodies the publication of said regulation(s).

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On Friday 22 March 2002 12:07 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:49:11 -0500
>
> begin  edj <edjlb at yahoo.com> spewed forth:
> > On Fri 22 March 2002 01:07 pm, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> > > "David A. Bandel" wrote:
> > > > Not sure I'm up on this amendment to the Consitution.  Which
> > > > amendment provides for right to privacy of medical records?

[wholesale snippage]

>
> I don't really want to start a "reasonable right to privacy" debate,
> because those are generally settled in court on a case-by-case basis.
>  And what is reasonable to one judge often is not to another (and of
> course that changes based on the circumstances).
>
> Ciao,
>
> David A. Bandel