The Coalition for Patient Privacy urges the Department of Health and Human Services to revise and repeal the interim final rule (IFR) establishing requirements for notification of breaches of unsecured protected health information.
“We are dismayed and disappointed with the IFR, particularly with the inclusion of a ‘harm standard’. HHS went far beyond the intent [...]

Washington, D.C. — Patient Privacy Rights’ Founder & Chair, Deborah Peel, MD, testifies before the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee today to urge the Committee to ensure privacy and patient engagement with HIT. Ensuring privacy, control of personal information, is the only way to build trusted electronic health systems and the only way to [...]

Washington, DC — There’s a knock at your door. Your neighbor accidently received your mail; the neighbor you carpool to work with. You are horrified to see that the mail included an unsealed marketing piece from the chain drug store that identifies that YOU take Paxil and perhaps you would be interested in trying the [...]

Urging Privacy Protections with Health IT
Privacy safeguards are needed if funds are to be provided for
implementation of health IT systems in economic stimulus package
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 14, 2009
Contact: Ashley Katz, Patient Privacy Rights, (512) 897-6390, akatz {at} patientprivacyrights(.)org
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Safeguards Need to Be Part of Funding for Implementation of Health IT
Systems in Economic Stimulus Package
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
January 13, 2009
Contact: Ashley Katz, Patient Privacy Rights, (512) 732-0033, akatz {at} patientprivacyrights(.)org
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