HIPAA Regs Challenged in Court as Too Liberal

Health consumer activists have filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of recently enacted HIPAA regulations on the grounds that the regulations don't do what they are supposed to do, and in fact lessen medical privacy.The suit's plaintiffs, Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Health; American Association for Health Freedom in Great Falls, Va.; American Association of Practicing Psychiatrists in Kensington, Md.; St. Louis-based American Mental Health Alliance U.S.A.; American Psychoanalytic Association, based in New York; National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers from Co...