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 [...]

Sorenson Communications®, the nation’s leading provider of Video Relay Services (VRS) for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use sign language to communicate, applauded the Senate confirmation today of Julius Genachowski as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Robert McDowell to another term as an FCC Commissioner. Genachowski will chair an agency that plays [...]

New Delhi, Saturday, 16 May 2009: The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat [umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations] welcomed the mandate given by the people of India to the UPA in general and the Congress Party in particular.
The AIMMM President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said in a statement here that the elections’ outcome is a clear [...]

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, facing a barrage of questions from India TV Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma in AAP KI ADALAT, has said that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar had, by and large, a secular image, and the only question mark about him was his present alignment with the BJP. ‘But every thing will depend on [...]

The India TV-C Voter opinion poll conducted between April 3 and 11 among more than 30,000 respondents has thrown up a projection leading to a photo-finish between the Congress-led UPA and the BJP-led NDA. The poll has also been analysed under four distinct scenarios.
The UPA is projected to win 187 seats and the NDA is [...]

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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Washington, DC – Despite the strong commitment by Congress and the President-elect to protect consumers over special interests, a “Confidentiality Coalition” boldly asks Congress to ensure that NO privacy or consumer protections are part of the health IT provisions in the economic stimulus package (see their letter to congress).
Who does the Confidentiality Coalition represent? “Health [...]

News Channels Hit Record Viewership During Elections
The first phase of the Indian elections is over with the Congress emerging as a winner in Delhi, Rajasthan & Mizoram. As the elections and counting were being carried out, thousands of Indians were glued to their television sets, eyeing the fate of the political parties, waiting and reacting [...]

The nation’s premier taxpayer watchdog group, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today urged President-Elect Barack Obama to retain and enforce the executive order that President Bush signed on January 29, 2008 entitled Protecting American Taxpayers From Government Spending on Wasteful Earmarks.
Press reports indicate that President-Elect Obama’s transition team has begun reviewing the hundreds of [...]