January 11, 2001
New Federal Privacy Rules Allow Fund Raisers to Use Patient Data to Seek Charitable Gifts
By NICOLE LEWISNew federal regulations aimed at protecting the privacy of medical patients give nonprofit health-care organizations the right to continue using some personal information about patients to raise money.
Nonprofit groups had fought to maintain access to the information after a proposed version of the regulations, published in November 1999, threatened to block such access.
The new regulations, issued by the Department of Health and Human
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