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The Oregon Health Forum the high price of the U.S. medical system, which is marked by massive waste. The $1 trillion in excess spending ends up benefitting the industry, which applies tremendous political pressure to keep costs bloated.

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.