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Hospital and health systems face big penalties if they do not comply with the privacy and security standards of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). So it may be astonishing to learn that the federal Privacy Rule does not apply to public records requests to Oregon public healthcare institutions, at least for now.

NAMI Oregon's 12th annual walk serves as both a fundraiser and an effort to put a face on mental illness

The author maintains that the Oregon Health Plan rationing experiment was a colossal hoax and channeled billions of new dollars to Oregon’s healthcare interest.

HB 2363 puts Oregon Health Authority administrative rules into statute in an effort to minimize the use of non-therapeutic isolation of patients who come to emergency rooms during a mental breakdown but are locked in a room while receiving minimal treatment. Some Republicans objected to micro-managing the administrative process with a new law.