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HIPAA strikes again!

Illinois has rejected a request to provide information on a state-run children's insurance program. The reason? It's an invasion of privacy under a federal health privacy law. But the State Journal-Register didn't even ask for names, just general enrollment statistics. Go figure.

Read more at Editor and Publisher.
Published Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:23 PM by JoelCampbell

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