The Obama administration reversed its policy to block access to information on malpractice settlements and discipline taken against doctors but set some conditions that journalists do not like.
The administration said that information from the National Practitioner Data Bank could not be reposted or used with other information to identify a doctor. The administration had taken down the data bank because a Kansas reporter had used the information to track down a doctor with a record of malpractice but never disciplined by the state. -db
From the Federal Times, November 10, 2011, by Sarah Chacko.