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 [...]
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Contact: Ashley Katz, Patient Privacy Rights, (512) 732-0033, akatz {at} patientprivacyrights(.)org
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Congress: Protect in statute what Americans assume happens when they visit their
doctors: that what they “say in the doctor’s office stays in the doctor’s office.”
Washington, D.C. — Dr. Deborah Peel, founder and chair of Patient Privacy Rights and leader of the bipartisan Coalition for Patient Privacy testifies today before the House Energy & Commerce Committee, [...]
Adding privacy later will further open up our health records to data miners and cost taxpayers millions.
Washington D.C. — As Senators Kennedy and Enzi, sponsors of the Wired for Healthcare Quality Act, S. 1693, try to push legislation through the Senate prior to the holiday recess, members of the Coalition for Patient Privacy [...]
