21.   Brighton, Mass.-based PatientKeeper manufactures software used by doctors in their personal digital assistants to keep better track of patient information.

22.   But to insurance companies, misrepresenting patient information is plain, old fraud.

23.   Medical researchers contend the rules might make it harder for them to use patient information in studies that could achieve breakthroughs in treatments.

24.   Requirements for specific information, he said, had led each doctor to note the same basic patient information before making his or her own new observations.

25.   The coalition for patient rights contends that marketing companies could get access to patient information under the guise of disease management programs.

26.   The network will give health-care workers fast access to patient information from anywhere in the province.

27.   The proposal would create new civil and criminal penalties for improperly disclosing patient information.

28.   They require doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to get permission before disclosing personal patient information.