New Federal Rules regarding Patient Privacy

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, 65 Fr 82462.

December 28, 2000; 45 CFR Parts 160–164.

Administrative Simplification, Public Law 104–191, 1996.

Standards for Electronic Transactions, 65 FR 50312, August 17, 2000.

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