11.   The bill encourages the elimination of patient identifying information to ease the legitimate exchange of medical information.

12.   The insurance industry assured the coalition it would ask for no more patient information than necessary to check diagnosis and treatment plan.

13.   The national ALS Association at www.alsa.org offers a comprehensive overview of the disease, plus patient information and research news.

14.   The New York Times obtained copies of fake bills, which included the stolen confidential patient information.

15.   The recommendations would allow organizations to use patient information for research if it does not include data that could be traced back to the patient.

16.   The samples are most valuable when they are accompanied by full patient family information, medical history, and treatment overview.

17.   The rules require doctors, hospitals and insurers to get permission before disclosing personal patient information.

18.   The use of patient information from such genetic tests raises some ethical and legal questions.

19.   They will require doctors, hospitals and insurers to get permission before disclosing personal patient information.

20.   Yet other laws regulate the privacy of patient information in clinical trials.