Doctor-Patient Confidentiality Relationship in Jeopardy

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From AAHF: Medical Confidentiality in “Jeopardy”


Doctor-Patient Confidentiality Relationship in Jeopardy

The economic stimulus bill, as currently written, mandates electronic health records for every citizen WITHOUT providing for an opt-out or patient consent provision starting in 2014.

The House has already passed this egregious bill and the Senate will consider the bill starting Monday.

“Without those protections, Americans’ electronic health records could be shared—without their consent—with over 600,000 covered entities through the forthcoming nationally linked electronic health-records network,” says Sue Blevins, Institute for Health Freedom president.

“President Obama has pledged to advance freedom. Therefore the freedom to choose not to participate in a national electronic health-records system must be upheld,” Blevins says. “Unless people have the right to decide if and when their health information is shared or whether to participate in research studies, they don’t have a true right to privacy.”….