title: Finance, pharmaceuticals, providers issue brief: medical records.
abstract: Medical records confidentiality has blossomed into one of the bigger state and federal topics of the 2000 legislative session. The issue has evolved to encompass regulation of the access to records aspect of health privacy, rather than 1999's stressing the importance of records privacy altogether. This shift is placing more emphasis on "who" (insurers, corporations, researchers, etc.) gets right of entry to sensitive and personally revealing medical records, as opposed to "what" (which file types will be private, which will not).
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authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hackney
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States