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On August 9, 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services released the final version of the federal medical-privacy rule (Federal Register 67: 53182–53273, 2002). The release ended a tortuous process dating back to September 1997, when the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services provided Congress with recommendations for legislation to protect the privacy of medical information. Congress was unable to pass a medical-privacy statute by August 1999, the deadline specified by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The act empowered the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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