Comments on Consumer Preferences Draft Requirements

 

On behalf of the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), I respectfully submit these brief comments in response to the Consumer Preferences Draft Requirements Document dated October 5, 2009. CDT, through its Health Privacy Project, promotes comprehensive privacy and security policies to protect health data as information technology is increasingly used to support the exchange of health information. As Director of the Health Privacy Project, I also sit on the Health Information Technology Policy Committee, a federal advisory committee chartered in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide recommendations to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) regarding implementation of the legislation.