Protecting patient privacy the new fashioned way
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 07:00
in Health & Medicine
Protecting patient privacy has been recognised as the duty of health-care providers for about as long as doctors have seen patients. In 1996 that duty became a legal obligation when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
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