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99 CIS S 43118
TITLE:
Medical Records Privacy
CIS-NO:
99-S431-18
SOURCE: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-49
DATE: Mar. 15, 1999
LENGTH: iii+77 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-49
MC-ENTRY-NO: 99-20286
SUMMARY:
Hearing in Berlin, Vt., to review the need for legislation to protect the
confidentiality of individually identifiable medical records.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Medical info
confidentiality protection review
DESCRIPTORS:
VERMONT; MEDICAL REGULATION; HEALTH
FACILITIES AND SERVICES; RIGHT OF PRIVACY; INFORMATION SERVICES
AND SYSTEMS; MEDICAL ETHICS; BERLIN, VT.
99-S431-18
TESTIMONY NO: 1 Mar. 15, 1999 p. 3-21
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
KOCH, THOMAS (State
Representative, Vermont)
O'DONNELL, MEG H. (Director,
Quality Assurance and Consumer Protection, Division of Health Care
Administration, Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health
Care Administration)
PALMER, TIM (Executive Director,
Vermont Cares)
ARANOFF, SUSAN (attorney, representing
Vermont Protection Advocacy)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Views on Federal and State roles in protecting the
confidentiality of individually identifiable medical records;
importance of legislation to protect the confidentiality of personal
medical records.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medical info confidentiality protection
review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
VERMONT
DEPARTMENT OF BANKING, INSURANCE, SECURITIES AND HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION;
FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS
99-S431-18 TESTIMONY NO: 2
Mar. 15, 1999 p. 22-37
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
TOFFERI, LEIGH (Director, Government and
Public Relations, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont)
CRAMER, ANNE (attorney, representing Vermont Association
of Hospitals and Health Systems)
MONGAN, MADELEINE
(Director, Government Relations, Vermont Medical Society)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Recommendations
for legislation to establish Federal standards to protect patients'
medical records from inappropriate disclosures.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medical info
confidentiality protection review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF VERMONT
99-S431-18 TESTIMONY NO: 3 Mar. 15, 1999 p.
37-42
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
GETTINGER, ANDREW (Dr.) (Medical
Director, Information Systems, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center; also representing Dartmouth
Medical School)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Views on medical records confidentiality.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medical
info confidentiality protection review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER
99-S431-18 TESTIMONY NO: 4 Mar. 15,
1999 p. 43-55
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
LUSSIER, MARY
LADUE, ANNE (both
representing American Association of Occupational Health Nurses)
WEIR, DOUGLAS (Dr.) (Program Manager, Occupational Health
Services, International Business Machines Corp)
WARD,
NORMAN S. (Dr.) (Associate Professor, Family Practice, University of Vermont
College of Medicine)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Perspectives on legislation to establish Federal standards
to protect patients' medical records confidentiality.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medical
info confidentiality protection review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSES
99-S431-18 TESTIMONY NO: 5
Additional Testimony
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
WARNKE, ANDREA (Associate Director, American Civil
Liberties Union of Vermont, p. 55-74)
ZIEGLER, LAURA (p.
55-74)
TARBELL, PHYLLIS (representing Dorset Nursing
Association, p. 55-74)
GIELLA, VICKI (representing Area
Agency on Aging for Northeastern Vermont, p. 55-74)
BIGGAM, PATRICK (attorney, representing Vermont Labor
Council, p. 74-77)
TRAVIS, BRIAN (Dr.)
(Medical Director, Central Vermont PHO, p. 74-77)
MCGOWAN, JULIE (Researcher, Medical
Informatics, University of Vermont, p. 74-77)
STATEMENTS:
Perspectives on legislation to establish Federal standards
to protect patients' medical records confidentiality.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Medical
info confidentiality protection review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF VERMONT
