Tuesday, October 03, 2006

SCOTUS Refuses to Hear Medical Privacy Case

An AP newswire article, via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reports that:

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit by privacy advocates who say the Bush administration's rules for disclosing medical records are too lax.

Ten groups representing 750,000 consumers, medical practitioners and their patients challenged a federal rule that encourages development of an information system for electronic transfer of health data.

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