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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002 94(20):1521-1523; doi:10.1093/jnci/94.20.1521
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 20, 1521-1523, October 16, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

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Final Regulations Set for Patient Privacy Protection

Damaris Christensen

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Next year, federal regulations aimed at protecting health care information will for the first time give Americans a say in how their private medical information is used, supplementing a patchwork of state and local laws that now govern medical privacy.

These regulations will have an impact on the medical research community—perhaps with a chilling effect or simply as another administrative hurdle. But all agree that, compared to earlier versions, the final rule streamlines the process and simplifies the requirements that affect medical research.

"Medical centers whose mission includes teaching and research will find a way to create the structures necessary to comply with the [privacy] rule," said David Korn, M.D., senior vice president of the division of biomedical and health sciences research . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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