In Case You Haven't Heard…

At the risk of sounding repetitive, confidentiality is being attacked again. Now the federal Department of Health and Human Services is following up on its proposal to weaken the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), saying patient records should be “shareable,” opening up privacy to records-for-sale. So much for the people who kept saying “make 42 CFR Part 2 like HIPAA.” Here's the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/hhs-ocr-hipaa-nprm.pdf. Comments are due in three weeks.