Article: Three New Health Information Confidentiality Bills Introduced.(Government Activity)

AHIMA Finds Several Provisions Worrisome

Though the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) fully supports federal health information confidentiality legislation, two of the bills introduced in Congress give the association cause for concern. S.573, the Medical Information Privacy and Security Act (Senators Patrick J. Leahy, D-VT, and Edward M. Kennedy, D-MA) and H. R.1057, its counterpart in the House of Representatives (Edward J. Markey, D-MA) include provisions that ultimately could endanger health information, not protect it.

AHIMA executive vice president and CEO, Linda L. Kloss, RRA, explained that S. 573 and H. R. 1057 contain ...

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