Patient Privacy Rights: Zones of Privacy

Check out the new tool in our Patient Privacy Toolkit. Take a look at how your state is protecting your privacy.

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Legislation

We stopped the Wired Act! While it is still important to tell your Senators to Vote NO on the Wired Act, please also thank Senators Coburn (R-OK) and Snowe (R-ME) for taking a stand against this bad bill.

The House is pushing a new Health IT bill, H.R. 6357, the PRO(TECH)T Act. Learn more about the bill, PPR's testimony before Congress and the need for stronger privacy protections.

Business Week -- They Know What's in Your Medicine Cabinet: How insurance companies dig up applicants' prescriptions -- and use them to deny coverage.

Washington Post -- Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers: Records Aid Insurers but Prompt Privacy Concerns

This chart shows who can see and use your medical records for business purposes that have nothing to do with healthcare or insurance payments. You can download a copy of this chart either as a PDF or MS Word document.