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HIPAA and Prayer

Thursday, May 6th, 2004

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The new HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) laws are meant to restrict disclosure of member/patient medical information.

But beyond the effect HIPAA will have on insurance companies, consider the consequences for groups outside of the health care industry that use medical information that is technically “confidential.” Examples include church bulletins, prayer requests, etc.

Jeffrey Veen had an interesting post about the subject last week.

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HIPAA and Prayer

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