| New Rule In Works for Patients Rights |
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| Written by The Buzz | |||
| Sunday, 18 September 2011 16:30 | |||
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The Health and Human Services Department is considering expanding patients rights. The new rules, according to GovInfoSecurity.com, will grant patients the right to access lab results directly from the labs. The HHS is accepting comments about this proposal for the next 60 days and it hopes to issue the final rule by later this year. Click here to read the full article. | |||
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About the Author: Jeff Merron is a full-time freelance editor, journalist, and copywriter who has written for the New York Times Magazine, ESPN.com, Slate, Byte Magazine, Macworld, Consumers Digest, and many other national publications. He's also a regular contributor to IT Business Insider and 108, a baseball magazine. He has a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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