Even for Ebola patients, HIPAA limits release of information

Modern Healthcare (complimentary subscription available): ears ago, one could drive through West Texas and hear reports of who had been admitted to local hospitals on the radio, recalled Fletcher Brown, a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch &Davis.Now, despite recent cases of Ebola surfacing in Texas, hospitals there and across the country have to be much more tight-lipped about patients' names, diagnoses...

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