Health Information & the Law Standing Committee member, Eric Goplerud was interviewed and quoted in a Wall Street Journal article entitled, "Drug Treatment Swept Up in Push for Medical-Records Sharing," on June 4, 2014. The article relates to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) consideration of revising its regulations that define consent. 42 C.F.R. Part 2 are the regulations in question, and they protect substance abuse treatment records from being disclosed to anyone without the patient's explicit consent. SAMHSA is holding a town hall meeting on June 11, 2014 to gather more information and decide how to proceed on this issue.
Check back on healthinfolaw.org for our coverage and analysis of the SAMHSA hearing.
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