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#NewHIPAA Proposed Privacy Rule Thread starting. These are my notes, there'll be a blog post summarizing these later. 1/??? And I'm not even going to try to count these or tag all with #NewHIPAA, I'll just keep them in this thread.

357 pages, PDF here: hhs.gov/sites/default/…
Basically this is needed because healthcare providers say "I can't do that b/c HIPAA, and patients say "yes you can", and lawyers say "but ...", and trees, we need to save some trees.

A lot of the input on this rule came from a request for information in 2018.
The big points are: Give me my damn data, and let me take notes, and do it faster, and you can get it in the form and format that you ask for, w/o having to bring umpteen forms of id, clarifying when you can be charged, changing the fee structure, making fees more transparent ...
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