Electronic Health Records
ACTION ALERT — Tell Your Senator to Stop National Patient ID!
Action Alerts
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March 03, 2022
Congress is deciding right now whether to fund a National Patient ID – a single, federally-issued number that links all your medical records together. This “Unique Patient Identifier” has been prohibited for more than 20 years due to concerns about patient privacy, personal autonomy and the national security risks associated with centralized databases of personal information. Click here to send the key decisionmakers and your U.S. Senators a message asking them NOT to fund a National Patient ID.
National Reports
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February 15, 2022
CCHF, along with 25 other individuals and organizations representing American citizens nationwide, sent a letter to Congressional leadership and Members of the Appropriations Committee February 10, 2022, to express strong opposition to ending the longstanding prohibition on funding and development for the controversial, and very troubling, federal Unique Patient Identifier (UPI). See the letter here.
Stop the National Patient ID
Action Alerts
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February 03, 2022
ASK CONGRESS: Request that the U.S. Senate and U.S. House (in the pending appropriations bill) maintain the prohibition on funding and development of the Unique Patient ID (UPI). Ask them to sign on as a sponsor to the repeal of the UPI, as introduced in H.R. 5812 by Congressman Chip Roy (and 8 co-authors) and S. 3124 by U.S. Senators Rand Paul and Marsha Blackburn. It is best to telephone your members. Email is less effective: https://www.congressionalinstitute.org/contact-congress/
Multimedia
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May 05, 2022
Twila Brase joins host Dawn Richardson to the podcast “Advocacy Lifeline” for a discussion on medical records and the government‘s role in accessing that private information. Who has access to this private health information, and what can they do with it? Why is the government looking at and controlling these records, and how are they doing so?
ALPHA NEWS, May 2, 2022: The government has essentially shut down early treatment options, and under th eproposed House bill, the government's focus remains fixated on tracking COVID patients instead of treating them.
Multimedia
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January 13, 2022
Twila Brase Reveals the Secret Language Behind Health Privacy Laws
There is a secret code hidden in the language of health privacy laws. Words we understand in plain speak, like “quality,” “meaningful,” and “value,” mean something totally different when found as law.
Health Freedom Watch
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November 20, 2021
HEALTH FREEDOM WATCH
Volume 24: Issue 4: 4th Quarter 2021
Action Alerts
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October 28, 2021
Call/Write your representatives and ask them to STOP the Unique Patient ID and keep the UPI ban in place in the Appropriations Bill. Find your representative here:
Representatives | House — Representatives | house.gov
U.S. Senate — U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
Model Legislation
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August 05, 2021
Parents are permitted to refuse newborn genetic screening or to choose private newborn genetic screening. Notwithstanding any other state or federal law or regulation, prior to conducting newborn genetic screening, a health care facility or health care provider must receive the express, separate, written, voluntary, informed consent of the parents or guardian of a newborn child. A general consent permitting treatment signed by the parents or guardian at admission to a facility does not fulfill this requirement. This consent requirement cannot be waived for any reason.
HEALTH FREEDOM WATCH
Volume 24: Issue 1: 1st Quarter 2021
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