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All Over the Map

Newly updated to include breast cancer, prostate cancer, and spine procedures, this CHCF-sponsored research shows that practice patterns vary dramatically from place to place.

Medi-Cal Transforms

Medi-Cal is the main source of health insurance for one in five Californians. An updated report gives an overview of the program's key features, describes how the program is evolving, and examines the challenges ahead.

Obama Care in the Second Term

CHCF is a long-time sponsor of the UC Irvine Forecast Conference. A webcast of this year's conference on health policy in President Obama's second term is now available.

Privacy

Thursday, January 05, 2012

Columnist Blasts Hospital's Handling of Patient's Records

Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik describes a recent situation in which executives from Shasta Regional Medical Center, which is owned by Prime Healthcare Services, showed a patient's medical chart to the Redding Record Searchlight, arguing that the incident violates patient privacy rules because the hospital executives did not obtain the patient's written authorization. "The behavior of Prime and Shasta Regional should provide rich fodder for investigations by state and federal agencies and by U.S. prosecutors in Sacramento, who cover Shasta County," Hiltzik writes.



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