Originally posted by badal:
Another internet rumour spread by well-meaning but uninformed individuals.
Al - you're being polite. Some of the jabber on other sites isn't 'well-meaning' at all.

Bill & company - SCCA club racing insurance requires that medical information on each driver is available at each event. HIPAA obligations for information security place legal and financial risks on our Regions, and the DC Region approach is a clever way of assuring that the required medical information is available without the Region taking on the SIGNIFICANT legals risks .

I'll challenge anyone here to offer a different solution to Regions for dealing with the HIPAA issue. I'm sure somebody will immediately say "waiver", but those people haven't researched the legal issues involved.

HIPAA, as written, is a horrendous piece of public policy. Now we just have to live with it until somebody kills off a sufficiently large number of the tort bar.

But that's just my opinion.