Medical Records Confidentiality Act of 1995: Hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1360, to Ensure Personal Privacy with Respect to Medical Records and Health Care-related Information, and for Other Purposes, November 14, 1995, Volume 4

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Page 53 - Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuse of the data...
Page 35 - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
Page 56 - The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care, recommended the adoption of computer-based patient records by the year 2000 and the formation of a nationwide health information network. However, as that report noted, there are states which require that medical records be written and signed.
Page 55 - Assessment (OTA) report, Protecting Privacy in Computerized Medical Information, found that current laws, in general, do not provide consistent, comprehensive protection of health information confidentiality. Focusing on the impact of computer technology, the report concluded that computerization reduces some concerns about privacy of health information while increasing others. The OTA report highlights the need for enactment of a comprehensive federal privacy law.
Page 58 - The patient or the patient's representative may have access to health care information concerning the patient, has the right to have a copy of such health care information made after payment of a reasonable charge, and, further, has the right to have a notation made with or in such health care information of any amendment or correction of such health care information requested by the patient or patient representative. Required safeguards — Any person maintaining, using or disseminating health care...
Page 117 - ... result of the establishment of the airfield across the Kansas River from the main post base. In addition, Interstate Highway No. 70, at the Edge of Fort Riley, now under construction, further increases the travel into the main post. A new bridge is badly needed. This bridge was authorized last year. I want to take this opportunity to thank the members of this committee again for including an item in the amount of $1,332,000 in the military construction appropriation bill for fiscal year ending...
Page 75 - A disclosure of appropriate alternative procedures or courses of treatment, if any, that might be advantageous to the subject; (5) A statement describing the extent, if any, to which confidentiality of records identifying the subject will be maintained...
Page 56 - It has been recognized that there is a need for more uniformity among the 50 states. In recent years, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws developed the Uniform Health Care Information Act in an attempt to stimulate uniformity among states on health care information management issues. Presently, only two states, Montana and Washington, have enacted this model legislation. Clearly, efforts must be directed toward developing...
Page 54 - ... payers, providers of health care, and all other entities involved in the • transactions; Exempt state public health reporting laws; Delineate protocols for secure electronic storage and transmission of health care data; > Specify fair information practices that ensure a proper balance between...
Page 58 - Collection and use only for lawful purpose — Health care information must be collected and used only for a necessary and lawful purpose. • Notification to patient — Each person maintaining health care information must prepare a formal, written statement of the fair information practices observed by such person. Each patient who provides health care information directly to a person maintaining health care information should receive...

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