Publications

Health Privacy

• Joy Pritts, The Importance and Value of Protecting the Privacy of Health Information (Commissioned by the Institute of Medicine Committee on the HIPAA Privacy Rule and Research)
• J. Zoe Beckerman, Joy Pritts, et al., "Health Information Privacy, Patient Safety, and Health Care Quality: Issues and Challenges in the Context of Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use" (PDF) Reproduced with permission from BNA's Health Care Policy Report, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jan. 14, 2008). Copyright 2008 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com>
• Joy Pritts, Your Medical Record Rights (A Guide to Consumer Rights under HIPAA) (HTML) July 2005. State guides to consumer rights to see, get a copy of, and amend or correct their own medical record.
• Joy Pritts, Angela Choy, Leigh Emmart, and Joanne Hustead, "The State of Health Privacy, Second Edition, A Survey of State Health Privacy Statues." June 2003.
  Volume 1 (Alabama-Montana) (PDF)
  Volume 2 (Nebraska-Wyoming) (PDF)
  
•  Joy Pritts, “Preemption Analysis Under HIPAA—Proceed with Caution,” (PDF) In Confidence (the newsletter of the American Health Information Management Association), April 2003.
•  Joy Pritts, “Altered States: State Health Privacy Laws and the Impact of the Federal Health Privacy Rule,” Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, Spring 2002.
• Joy Pritts, Implementing the Federal Health Privacy Rule in California." (HTML) Published by the California HealthCare Foundation, February 2002. Available online at http://www.chcf.org/
•  Angela Choy, Zoe Hudson and Joy Pritts, Exposed Online: Why the New Federal Health Privacy Regulation Doesn’t Offer much Protection to Internet Users. (PDF) Published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2002.
• Joy Pritts, Janlori Goldman, Zoe Hudson, Aimee Berenson and Elizabeth Hadley, "The State of Health Privacy: An Uneven Terrain." August 1999.
  

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Comments on Rules Regarding Financial Institutions' Use of Medical Information

• Joy Pritts, "Comments on Proposed Fair Credit Reporting Medical Information Regulations [FACT Act]" (PDF) May 2004.
• Joy Pritts, "Comments on Interim Final Rules, Fair Credit Reporting Medical Information Regulations [FACT Act]," (PDF) July 11, 2005.

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