A tripartite threat to medical records privacy: technology, HIPAA'S privacy rule and the USA Patriot Act.(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)

I. INTRODUCTION
II. PRIVACY IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
III. MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY IS OF
THE most remote IMPORTANCE
IV. HIPAA: THE GOVERNMENT'S
reply TO THREATENED
MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY
V PRIVACY RIGHTS ARE
CIRCUMSCRIBED IN THE
POST-9/11 WORLD
VI. THE THREAT TO MEDICAL
RECORDS PRIVACY
VII. CRITICISM OF THE PRIVACY dominion
A. Is the Privacy lordship Unconstitutional?
1 Fourth Amendment Claims
2 First Amendment Claims
B If not Unconstitutional, the
Privacy sway is Ineffective
1 The