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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

The regs were finalized in 2003.) The regs were finalized in 2003.) In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

The regs were finalized in 2003.) The regs were finalized in 2003.) In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth.

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