Lorri Zuleger sent a message to the members of CCHC (Citizens Council on Healthcare).
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Subject: ACT NOW - Protect Your Medical Privacy & Patient Control!
New Deadline: TOMORROW, Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has just assured me that TOMORROW will be the deadline for public comment on their plan to seize your medical records, claim State ownership, transfer your data to Maine, and track you and your doctors.
CCHC is calling for at least 1000 people to ask the MN Health Department for a public hearing before a judge! (see below for 5 reasons to act now)
Please email a simple request today, asking that a public hearing before an administrative law judge be held before their proposal is allowed to go forward. Make any comments you wish, but don't forget to ask for the public hearing. Please cc. CCHC.
SEND EMAIL TO: will.wilson@state.mn.us (Will Wilson)
One example of a request letter follows:
SAMPLE LETTER:
RE: MDH Patient "Encounter Data" Proposal
Dear Mr. Wilson,
I oppose the violation of my medical privacy and civil rights by the transfer of my medical records to Maine, the placement of my medical information online and accessible to the State of Minnesota, and the failure of the Minnesota Department of Health to give the public proper notice and opportunity to comment on their proposed data collection plan. I hereby request that a public hearing on this proposal be held by the Office of Administrative Hearings.
Your Name
Your Address
Your Phone #
And don't forget to cc. Citizens' Council on Health Care (info@cchconline.org)
FIVE GOOD REASONS TO ACT NOW:
* Every email/letter on this issue goes to the Administrative Law Judge who can decide to approve or not approve the final medical "encounter data" collection and analysis rule proposed by the Department.
* Even though the Department avoided being forced to hold a hearing by the public (they got authority for "expedited rulemaking") the Administrative Law Judge could decide otherwise.
* Sometimes in expedited rulemaking (not this time, thanks to MDH), 100 letters from the public are required to get a public hearing. We want to highlight the department's violation of the public's right to have a hearing by getting 10 times that amount (1000 letters!).
* If we get enough letters sent to the Department, the news media may pick up on it—and alert the rest of the public!
* The Minnesota legislature could decide to act, and either force a public hearing, hold a legislative hearing or better yet, require informed written patient consent before the medical data of every Minnesotan is placed online, sent to Maine, and accessed by the Minnesota Department of Health.
The only way you are guaranteed to lose your medical privacy, data ownership, and patient consent rights—and eventually your control over medical treatment decisions—is by failure to act right now!
Please send an email today or tomorrow at the latest (Deadline: Tuesday, February 10)...and tell all your friends and family to do the same!
Twila Brase, R.N.
President
Citizens' Council on Health Care
651-646-8935
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Subject: ACT NOW - Protect Your Medical Privacy & Patient Control!
New Deadline: TOMORROW, Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has just assured me that TOMORROW will be the deadline for public comment on their plan to seize your medical records, claim State ownership, transfer your data to Maine, and track you and your doctors.
CCHC is calling for at least 1000 people to ask the MN Health Department for a public hearing before a judge! (see below for 5 reasons to act now)
Please email a simple request today, asking that a public hearing before an administrative law judge be held before their proposal is allowed to go forward. Make any comments you wish, but don't forget to ask for the public hearing. Please cc. CCHC.
SEND EMAIL TO: will.wilson@state.mn.us (Will Wilson)
One example of a request letter follows:
SAMPLE LETTER:
RE: MDH Patient "Encounter Data" Proposal
Dear Mr. Wilson,
I oppose the violation of my medical privacy and civil rights by the transfer of my medical records to Maine, the placement of my medical information online and accessible to the State of Minnesota, and the failure of the Minnesota Department of Health to give the public proper notice and opportunity to comment on their proposed data collection plan. I hereby request that a public hearing on this proposal be held by the Office of Administrative Hearings.
Your Name
Your Address
Your Phone #
And don't forget to cc. Citizens' Council on Health Care (info@cchconline.org)
FIVE GOOD REASONS TO ACT NOW:
* Every email/letter on this issue goes to the Administrative Law Judge who can decide to approve or not approve the final medical "encounter data" collection and analysis rule proposed by the Department.
* Even though the Department avoided being forced to hold a hearing by the public (they got authority for "expedited rulemaking") the Administrative Law Judge could decide otherwise.
* Sometimes in expedited rulemaking (not this time, thanks to MDH), 100 letters from the public are required to get a public hearing. We want to highlight the department's violation of the public's right to have a hearing by getting 10 times that amount (1000 letters!).
* If we get enough letters sent to the Department, the news media may pick up on it—and alert the rest of the public!
* The Minnesota legislature could decide to act, and either force a public hearing, hold a legislative hearing or better yet, require informed written patient consent before the medical data of every Minnesotan is placed online, sent to Maine, and accessed by the Minnesota Department of Health.
The only way you are guaranteed to lose your medical privacy, data ownership, and patient consent rights—and eventually your control over medical treatment decisions—is by failure to act right now!
Please send an email today or tomorrow at the latest (Deadline: Tuesday, February 10)...and tell all your friends and family to do the same!
Twila Brase, R.N.
President
Citizens' Council on Health Care
651-646-8935
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