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Medical privacy, or public records?

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From The Post and Courier:

What do pension records, EMS response time data and coroners' reports have in common?

At some point, South Carolina officials considered all three to be medical records.

Tagged Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), medical records, privacy, public records

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