The Biden administration released new patient-privacy guidelines, seeking to spell out federal protections for personal medical information that law-enforcement officials could use to investigate potential violations of state antiabortion laws.Roe v. Wade, which is leading some states to implement laws limiting or outlawing abortion.
The guidelines, issued Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, emphasize the limits that federal rules place on disclosure of patient data, seeking to carve out relatively narrow conditions under which healthcare entities could be allowed to provide patient information under requirements of a state law.
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