WASHINGTON –As the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee markup the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, “HITECH Act” today, Patient Privacy Rights (PPR) urges the committees to ensure all consumer protections in the bill remain. The current draft of the legislation includes many essential privacy provisions [...]

MODERN HEALTHCARE MAGAZINE NAMES DEBORAH PEEL, MD, 72nd MOST POWERFUL PERSON, THE ONLY ADVOCATE TO MAKE THE LIST
Modern Healthcare magazine has named Dr. Deborah Peel, founder and chairman of Patient Privacy Rights, as number 72 on the list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare. For the second year in a row, Dr. [...]

What Could Be Scary About E-Prescribing? Plenty.
Washington, DC
Twenty five organizations, including the ACLU, the Republican Liberty Caucus, the American Council for the Blind and the National Association of Social Workers joined forces via the Coalition for Patient Privacy to urge Congress to include privacy protections in any federal electronic prescribing legislation. Read the Coalition’s letter [...]