In December, President Clinton announced what were supposed to be final regulations governing medical privacy. The regulations contained two new policies: one good, one bad. The good policy: The regs require HMOs to get patient consent before seizing their medical records. The bad policy: The regs permit doctors, hospitals, pharmacists and other providers of health care to deliver patient records to… return to article
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