PrivacySubject: New Privacy Regulations signed by Clinton WASHINGTON (AP) via NewsEdge Corporation - December 21, 2000. President Clinton issued sweeping new privacy protections Wednesday that, for the first time, will sharply limit doctors, hospitals and insurance companies from sharing confidential medical information about their patients. ``Nothing is more private than someone's medical or psychiatric records,'' Clinton said. ``If we are to make freedom fully meaningful in the information age, when most of our stuff is on some computer somewhere, we have to protect the privacy of individual health records.'' Until now, there's been no federal law protecting medical privacy, even as technology allows personal information to bounce swiftly from one computer to the next. Clinton said his actions Wednesday were the most he could do to protect individual medical records, and called on Congress to pass more protections. see http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/20/national/20CND-PRIV.html |
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