[privacy] What HIPAA?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Subject:                [RISKS] Risks Digest 24.68

Subject: New Hampshire federal judge overrules privacy law

The New Hampshire Legislature recently enacted a law that bars pharmacies,
insurance companies, and similar entities from transferring or using both
patient-identifiable data and prescriber-identifiable data for certain
commercial purposes.  

It was promptly challenged by 2 data-mining companies who buy up
prescription records from pharmacies and resell the info to drug
manufacturers.

Judge Barbadoro ruled that the data-miners had a 1st Amendment right to
resell the prescription records and the State of New Hampshire violated that
right in passing this law.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2007/05/21/AR2007052101701.
html 

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/NEWS0201/705040
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CITIZEN

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