with the cli sparks the hipaa privacy role. and for those of you who are not familiar with this little piece of hip la lore -- hipaa lore, when individuals were given access to their health information under hipaa, there is a little carveout for information which was held by clinical laboratories who are subject to the clinical laboratories improvement act. to make a long story short, the notice of proposed rule making -- which is a joint role because there are pieces of hipaa as well as pieces of the clia that had to be changed in order to make this happen -- it would expand the rights of patients to directly access their lab test results. and it's designed to empower patients, it's to be -- inform partners with their health care providers. and as janet mentioned earlier in more detail than i will go into, there is also, there are also provisions in the nprm for meaningful use stage ii that also focus on making information for accessible to patients -- more accessible to patients. onc in particular has really taken a focus on

. >> provided that your health care provider is covered by hipaa, yes, it should be. >> okay. yes. back here. >> john green with the national association of health underwriters. i wanted to know if the panel share the concern that i have relative to a provision of pdufa that would give oversight of approving applications to the fda, and that whole process which is very timely and costly when the shelf life of an apple is short and a lot of these people who develop them are working out of their ross, for instance. coming up, you have to make it worthwhile. i wonder if you had any concerns relative to this oversight about , is the smart phone no medical device that has to be approved by the fda? we would still be waiting for angry birds if it had to go through the fda. >> whoever answers that, would you take a moment to explain from some of los what pdufa is? is it a town in illinois? >> i think that is paducah. >> prescription drug user fee amendment. this whole issue was included. the fda now says they would like to have a peek at applications and whether or not it is a medica

some institutions, the hipaa laws that the rest of us are protected by aren't as stringently applied. it's actually a very complicated, looking at it from the outside in, it looks terribly complicated to navigate through the system and each system is different. >> john, in terms of, and again, we may not know this in terms of reporting. is this the same psychiatrist that the suspect allegedly sent a notebook or a packet to with some disturbing details? it? >> yeah, that's correct. that is the same package that police recovered. it was sent to doctor fen town. one thing i wanted to add here about something we don't know, anderson. i think it's important that we mention this. we don't know, if even though on one side that the threat assessment team didn't follow through or didn't meet or didn't think it could. on the other side, we really don't know what happened with dr. fenton and the suspect. did she meet with him after he left the school on a private basis? did she refer him to some other psychiatrist as one of your guests just said. those are things we don't know. so it's very diff

this comes ahead of apple's expected unveiling next month of the newest iphone 2 hipaa market. apple is pulling google's youtube from its latest version of software that is used in the iphone and the ipad/ it means your upgrade will not have youtube any more. you will have to download the applications separately. been exporting grantsales of athletic footwear peak during the olympics and the nba all-star games. united airlines wants you to use your frequent flyer miles for music and movies. that's coming up in the next hour. for now that's business news at bloomberg headquarters in new york. linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. >> 74 degrees. >> tonight is your chance to voice your thoughts on pepco's response to the big storm in june. find out where the you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof. some things will. save up to 20% o an ikea kitchen. corkscrews of repairing landslide damage involving two homes in stafford county virginia. last september, a landslide swallowed up two backyards in the neighborhood. repairs are likely

>> provided the health care provider is covered by hipaa, yes, they should be. >> yes, they should be. >> banks. >> i want to note the panel shared what i have delegated oversight approving apps through the fda and mental process, which can be very timely and costly where the shelf life of an out this short and a lot of people who develop them are working out their garage, for instance. you've got to make it worthwhile for them. so i am wondering if you have any concerns relative to this oversight. it's a smartphone now medical device that has to be approved by the fda? i mean, we'd still be waiting for an grouper is that it had to fda. >> the answer to that is what you take a moment to explain to some of us what a doofus. is it a town illinois? >> i think that is paducah. >> a law that was reauthorize. and you know, this whole issue of apps was included because fda now says they would like to have a peek at apps and whether or not it is a medical device and tax decide how long it takes things to get approved when they don't have the staff and management now to do the work that they a

smith - that her hipaa name - [laughter] she called me and said her back is really hurting. she was trying to lose weight of her back was hurting and the ibuprofen was not strong enough. i could hear the pain in her voice. i told her she needed to come in to see me monday or tuesday. she said, sure. sure enough, on tuesday, i walked in the examination room and there she was leaning over the examination table and so much pain that she could not sit down. i s to the medicine helped. she said i did not get it. she said i did not have the money. but she had insurance. she worked in the school system and the janitorial department. she got paid on friday and she would get it. i stepped out of the room and have her go across the room -- street to get some medicine. she came back i went and the room and i said here is your medicine. i told our want her to start taking the medicine. her eyes welled up with tears. she said i am so embarrassed. i did not want you to have to do that i realized at that moment that i had taken her dignity. i also realized -- she is like 5 foot, 4, african

ferpa and hipaa, these restrictions are good for protecting privacy and civil liberties, but have exceptionsuilt in just for these reasons. looking at the copy of the virginia tech review panel report, page 52, missing red flags. the key findings. the care team was hampered by strict interpretations of privacy laws and they didn't make good judgments that they could have made if all the information is brought together. we made advances since then. in fact, as far as i know, the threat assessment team came about in the wake of our tragedy. but there's so much further to go and we need to take policy action. i'll talk about that in a minute if you let me. >> barry, to that point, i read in usa today that 80% of schools now have threat assessment teams because of virginia tech and that's one of the lessons learned. the teams use what's called behavioral threat assessments to recognize a person on a path to violence. what kind of behaviors do they look for? how does this work? >> they start at low level behaviors you would expect. i think you'll see parallels to this case. at the very beginning,

smith, that is her hipaa name, by the way.laughter] she called me and said that her benjamin, my back is really, really hurting. i went to the specialist he sent me to and he told me i need to lose weight and i'm trying. i'm really trying, but i'm back is really hurting and the ibuprofen is not strong enough. can you call me in something stronger? and i said sure. i could hear the pain in her voice. but i said ms. smith community can see me monday or tuesday. i'll call your prescription, that you need to come see me. she said sure. i'll be there. so sure enough on tuesday a walk-in and there she was, leaning over the exam table, and so much pain that she couldn't sit down. i said ms. smith, you know, did the medicine i call you and help at all? she said well, dr. benjamin, i didn't get it. what you mean you didn't get it? she said i didn't have the money. i said that you have insurance. the work of the school system. in the janitorial department. you have insurance. she said yes, but i did not the co-pay. but i get paid on fri

secondly, more often than not, the military medical establishment believes that hipaa applies to themtual it's a little easier to hide. but before anyone would want to start mething around with that i would i want to talk to them first about how to forward that strife. how to not put yourself as risk anymore than e necessary. civil let gracious. few cases no real results. kinder. you're stuck fighting military deference.. to tell their personal stories that explain. now thri

smith, that is her hipaa name by the way. she called her and bash me on a saturday because many of my patients need you on the weekend. they call you. they don't abuse it. she called me and said dr. bennett's men my back is really hurting. i went to the specialists and he told me i needed to lose weight and i'm really trying, but my back is really hurting in the ibuprofen is not strong enough. can you call me of something stronger? and i said sure. i could hear her pain in the voice. i said, that she need to come see me monday or tuesday. i'll call your prescription that you need to come see me. sure, i'll be there. sure enough monday a walk in the exam room and there she was, leaning over the exam table in so much pain she couldn't sit down. i said ms. smith, you know, did the medicine i call you and help at all? she said well, dr. benjamin, i didn't get it. what do you mean you didn't get it? she said i didn't have the money. i said but you have insurance. you work at the school system. in the janitorial department. you hav

secondly, more often than not, the military medical establishment believes that hipaa applies to them. so actual it's a little easier to hide. but before anyone would want to start mething around with that i would i want to talk to them first about how to forward that strife. how to not put yourself as risk anymore than e necessary. civil let gracious. few cases no real results. kinder. you're stuck fighting military deference.. to tell their personal stories that explain. now that brigid has given an overview of where we are. and i want to start with calpernia. >> well, i guess, and this speaks to a certain point. in my personal experience and experience of the small council of contemporary standstill in touch with that transition. the position that i found myself in because a lot of people join the military jan and they don't really know themselves necessarily. they haven't clarified a lot of thoughts about their identity perhaps. a lot of trains people from my generation, which was the 80s is kind of when i grew up, we came into that knowledge about ourselves, you know, in her late