Court still mum on government attempts at abortion medical records
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, April 26, 2004
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A court of appeals has still not made a decision about whether New York Presbyterian Hospital will have to turn over medical records of women who received controversial late-term abortions to the government for its defense of the partial-birth abortion ban, according to an April 22 Associated Press (AP) report.
The hospital is appealing an earlier decision that would allow the government access if the hospital strikes identifying information from the women's records.
Although no ruling has surfaced, the three-judge panel presiding over the appeal said so far it doesn't see a reason to compromise the patients' confidentiality for the government's case, the AP reports.
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