About 12% of respondents said they’d withheld information; the percentage of those responding this way has remained largely unchanged in surveys conducted in 1999 and 2005 by the California Healthcare Foundation.
Modern Healthcare quotes James Pyles, a Washington, D.C.-based privacy lawyer, who said that the percentage of those who withhold information from medical professionals would be higher if the public new that HIPAA and the HITECH law “provide the individual with few rights to control the use and disclosure of their health information and provide federal permission to disclose health information in a manner that is inconsistent with professional ethics.”
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