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2000 CIS H 78133
TITLE:
Confidentiality of Health Information
CIS-NO:
2000-H781-33
SOURCE: Committee on Ways and Means. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: July 20, 1999
LENGTH:
iii+128 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1028-A; 1028-B
SUDOC: Y4.W36:106-29
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-29. Hearing before the Subcom on Health to examine
Federal and State efforts to protect the confidentiality of individually
identifiable medical information, and to examine proposals to
establish uniform Federal rules governing the use and disclosure of
medical records (Subcom advisories, p. 2-4).
Supplementary material (p. 91-128) includes submitted statements and
correspondence.
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Medical info confidentiality protections, uniform Fed rules
estab and issues review
DESCRIPTORS:
STATE GOVERNMENTS; MEDICAL REGULATION;
HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES; RIGHT OF PRIVACY; INFORMATION
SERVICES AND SYSTEMS; MEDICAL ETHICS; DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
00-H781-33 TESTIMONY NO: 1 July 20,
1999 p. 11-53
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
HASH, MICHAEL M. (Deputy Director, Health Care Financing
Administration (HCFA))
HAMBURG, MARGARET A. (Dr.)
(Assistant Secretary, Planning and Evaluation, HHS)
ARONOVITZ, LESLIE G. (Associate Director, Health Financing
and Public Health Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, GAO)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Efforts of HCFA
to improve protections for personally identifiable medicare beneficiary
information; recommendations of HHS for Federal medical
information privacy legislation; overview of HCFA medicare beneficiary
information protection activities governed by the
Privacy Act of 1974; issues related to medical
information privacy protection.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medical info confidentiality protections,
uniform Fed rules estab and issues review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING
ADMINISTRATION; MEDICARE; PRIVACY ACT
00-H781-33 TESTIMONY NO: 2 July 20, 1999 p. 53-91
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
CLAYTON,
PAUL D. (Senior Informaticist, Intermountain Health Care; also representing
American Hospital Association)
SMITH, G. RICHARD, JR.
(Dr.) (Professor, Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences; representing Association of American
Medical Colleges)
GOLDMAN, JANLORI
(Director, Health Privacy Project, Institute for Health Care
Research and Policy, Georgetown University)
JENKINS,
THOMAS J. (Assistant General Counsel, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska;
representing Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association)
STATEMENTS
AND DISCUSSION:
Importance of establishing uniform Federal
health confidentiality rules; recommendations for effective health
privacy legislation; background on State efforts to protect
medical information; perspectives on Federal medical
information confidentiality proposals, with recommendations.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medical info
confidentiality protections, uniform Fed rules estab and issues review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH
CARE
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
