Just so you think that Politics are not an important part of this discussion: New Privacy Rules Are Challenged The New York Times, December 21, 2000 By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 - Leaders of the health care industry said today that they would immediately ask President-elect George W. Bush to revise new rules issued by President Clinton to protect the privacy of medical records. ..... Lawrence A. Ponemon, global leader of the privacy practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, which advises hundreds of health care institutions, said: "Our clients in the health care industry need to be very alarmed. Most hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are light-years away from complying with these rules. They don't understand the magnitude of the rules."
