Health System Warily Prepares for Privacy Rules
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, April 5 — When Dr. Stephen C. Albrecht of Olympia, Wash., called a hospital in Tacoma recently to inquire about one of his patients, an 18-year-old treated for an infectious disease, he had trouble getting information.
Under a new policy at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, a 558-bed nursing home in Rockville, Md., callers can get information about patients only if they have a password or "verification code.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/national/06PRIV.html
USNEWS and Washpost also have stories in the works.
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