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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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 [...]
PATIENT PRIVACY RIGHTS, THE VOICE OF CONSUMERS, SPEAKS AT “HEALTH AFFAIRS” POLICY BRIEFING ON HEALTH IT
Washington, DC — On March 10, 2009 IT corporations, research organizations, and insurance companies will discuss the policies needed to advance health information technology. Patient Privacy Rights will have a seat at the table to speak for consumers, making [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Safeguards Need to Be Part of Funding for Implementation of Health IT
Systems in Economic Stimulus Package
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
January 14, 2009
Contact: Ashley Katz, Patient Privacy Rights, (512) 732-0033, akatz {at} patientprivacyrights(.)org
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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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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 [...]
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. [...]
