>" "Bioterrorism was never taken into account with HIPAA," Liss says. >"Putting the brakes on information that gets shared in the middle of a >bioterrorist attack doesn't make any sense.
This is a complete misreading of HIPAA by someone who undoubtedly has an axe to grind. HIPAA is quite specific about encouraging sharing data between providers. >The groups most strongly oppose two provisions: requiring patient consent >before any information can be shared or disclosed by health-care providers >for tasks from care to prescriptions to billing, and restricting patient >information from being used in research." This really is a non-sequitur, I agree.
