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, [...]

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 [...]

For consumers looking for ways to start taking control of their personal health information, the nation’s leading health privacy watchdog, Patient Privacy Rights, is rolling out a new on-line “Patient Privacy Toolkit”.
Consumers can visit http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/ and find helpful information, useful forms and easy ways to take action to make their health records private. [...]

The expected hotlining (rushing legislation through the Senate with minimal or no debate) did not take place on S. 1693, the WIRED FOR QUALITY HEALTH CARE ACT sponsored by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA). Right now, the Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee is involved in negotiations with the Senate Finance Committee over WIRED. [...]