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New Oklahoma Abortion Bill Challenged

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Charles Johnson10/08/2009 3:45:32 pm PDT

re: #10 Walter L. Newton

Yes, but looking over the above list, none of this violates HIPPA. I know HIPPA, at least the parts I need for developing software (I still have a off and on open project with Kaiser), and the information above would not, in general, allow anyone to actually identify the patient themselves. Now, if name or social or patient ID or stuff like that is included in this disclosure, that would be a problem.

Maybe not in big cities like Tulsa, but in small towns revealing this information could definitely be used to identify individual women.