Coalition Efforts

Consumer Action is working on these important issues along with other organizations. If you would like to know more about these issues, please see the "For More Information" within each effort.

Project aims to protect personal health information
Consumer Action Privacy Coalition partner, the Center for Democracy & Technology, has launched a major program in collaboration with the Health Privacy Project to develop and promote privacy policy solutions for personal health information. The project hopes to deliver developments in health information technology (HIT) that have the potential to improve health care quality, reduce costs and empower consumers to play a greater role in their own care.

Patient control of health data
Consumer Action joined the Coalition for Patient Privacy to support HR 5442, authored by Congressman Ed Markey, which would give Americans stronger rights to to protect their most sensitive information on earth, their health records.

Consumer Coalition for Health Privacy
The mission of the Consumer Coalition for Health Privacy — organized by the Health Privacy Project — is to educate and empower healthcare consumers to have a prominent and informed voice on health privacy issues at the federal, state, and local levels.