urgent response needed on medical records changes that could endanger patients privacy tremendously

[Guest guest]

A friend just forwarded me this mailing she received from a group that

monitors Federal and state medical privacy issues.

http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/

I just saw that the comment period is very short, deadline for

comments is tomorrow! (October 6, 2007)

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Bureaucrats and political appointees have too much power over our

private health records. Please send a message to the Feds stating

loud and clear that there should be no " secondary uses " or any uses of

our personal health information without contemporaneous, informed

consent.

" Secondary uses " include research, marketing, monitoring, data mining

and profiling.

The National Committee on Vital & Health Statistics (NCVHS) is

accepting public comments on its recent report.

The deadline to comment is Tuesday, November 6, 2007.

The Feds propose to:

* allow the sale of your medical data

* limit your consent rights

* abolish and prohibit real privacy laws

* expand access to your data

* enable tracking of you and your doctors

* enable data mining, patient profiling and data linking

Please click here and we'll send comments for you. You are able to

edit the comments if you like.

You can read Dr. Peel's in depth comments as well as the full NCVHS report.

Thank you,

Deborah Peel, MD

Chairman & Founder

Patient Privacy Rights

Katz, MSW

Executive Director

Patient Privacy Rights