From bobhoch@worldnet.att.net Fri Apr 23 06:25:31 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA33378 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 06:25:30 -0700 Received: from mtiwmhc01.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc01.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.36]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA19224 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 06:25:30 -0700 Received: from worldnet.att.net ([12.78.178.95]) by mtiwmhc01.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990423132526.CCUQ15223@worldnet.att.net> for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:25:26 +0000 Message-ID: <37207479.B1656DF6@worldnet.att.net> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:24:09 -0400 From: "Robert B. Hoch" Reply-To: bobhoch@worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Subject: GAO Report on Medical Privacy Issues References: <00b501be8d39$3cd1fe80$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In light of the recent (and continuing) thread on the subject of privacy and confidentiality, I thought list readers might be interested in a report the Government Accounting Office just made available via the Internet. It's at.... http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he99055.pdf Enjoy... Bob -- Robert Hoch Consulting 22614 Woodfield Road Gaithersburg, MD 20882 (301) 840-9320 FAX (301) 840-9413 .