Colloquium Will Focus on Privacy Issues Health Lawyers' Board of Directors has approved Privacy of Health Information as the topic of the Association's sixth Public Interest Colloquium. The colloquium will be held in Washington, DC, in March of 2001. Submit Comments to Colloquium Core Questions Health Lawyers' Public Interest Committee invites comments on the core questions that will guide an expert panel's deliberations at the Colloquium. View the Core Questions . Privacy meets all of Health Lawyers' criteria for selecting colloquium topics.
Privacy is also very timely.
Final regulations will probably be issued before the colloquium is held, but under the law they won't become effective for two years. Participants include representatives of the major constituencies that are involved with the colloquium's topic. To encourage open discussion on topics that often provoke partisan debate, Health Lawyers conducts colloquiums without an audience. Health Lawyers records the meeting, however, and subsequently publishes a comprehensive report that summarizes the colloquium discussions. To preserve confidentiality, the published report does not attribute comments to individual panelists.