Protecting Your Health Privacy: A Citizen's Guide to Safeguarding the Security of Your Medical Info

March 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Big Brother Is Watching Our Every Move, Even Our Medical Records. Find Out How To Protect Yourself In The New Book, “Protecting Your Health Privacy: A Citizen's Guide to Safeguarding the Security of Your Medical Information”

For Immediate Release

Big Brother is poring over your medical records with a thousand electronic eyes. A cascade of changes in medical privacy law, medical records technology, and employer-provided healthcare programs is dramatically affecting your ability to secure and control your personal health information against privacy breaches that can adversely impact the quality of your health care, your insurability, your employability, your marriage, and your reputation.

Protecting Your Health Privacy empowers ordinary citizens with the legal and technological knowledge and know-how we need to protect ourselves and our families from prying corporate eyes, medical identity theft, ruinous revelations of socially stigmatizing diseases, and illegal punitive practices by insurers and employers.

Online sites for keeping personal health records are privacy minefields. Individuals are increasingly exposing their health information to abuse by careless postings to social networking sites. Medical ID theft is a serious and growing problem that often has catastrophic consequences for victims' wealth and health. The 2010 Health Reform bill and the 2009 Economic Stimulus package incentivize medical providers to increase their use of electronic health records, which bring increased clinical benefits but also increased risks to privacy and security of medical information.

It's a new era in healthcare. Gone are the day when access to your medical records is limited to you and your doctor. Instead, today, a diverse group of constituencies have interest in and access to your health information. A cascade of changes in technology and the delivery of healthcare are increasing the vulnerability of your medical information. Accordingly, it is now more important than ever to take control over your own health information and take steps to protect your information against privacy breaches that can adversely impact the quality of your health care, your insurability, your employability, your relationships, and your reputation.

In clear, non-technical language, privacy lawyer Jacqueline Klosek teaches readers the basics you need to know as an individual healthcare consumer about the ongoing wave of national and state legislation affecting patient privacy: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of 2009, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. She untangles the increasingly complex ways by which health care providers, insurers, employers, social networking sites, and marketers routinely collect, use, and share our personal health information. Protecting Your Health Privacy: A Citizen's Guide to Safeguarding the Security of Your Medical Information empowers ordinary citizens with the knowledge and know-how we need to protect ourselves and our families from prying eyes, medical identity theft, ruinous revelations of socially stigmatizing diseases, and illegal punitive practices by insurers and employers..

Book Information:
Protecting Your Health Privacy: A Citizen's Guide to Safeguarding the Security of Your Medical Information
By Jacqueline Klosek
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 978-0313387173
Pages: 244
Published: November 18, 2010

Recent Reviews:

“This consumer-oriented book serves as a great resource for understanding healthcare information privacy and provides invaluable references for what consumers should do if they have to respond to medical identity theft.” -Pat Williams, Senior Vice President, Orlando Magic

“Keeping track of your health information privacy involves much more than signing a form at your doctor’s office. “Protecting Your Healthcare Privacy” gives the whole picture of healthcare privacy, including its relation to data privacy, identity theft, and the current legislative agenda.” -Max Izenberg, Author, “Reaching for 100″

“Any citizen caregiver will find this book useful in their quest to provide care and protect the privacy of their loved ones.” -Ford Saeks, president, Prime Concepts Group Inc.

About The Author

Jacqueline Klosek, a certified information privacy professional and senior counsel with Goodwin Procter, LLP, in New York, is the author of Praeger's The Right to Know: Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States; The War on Privacy; The Legal Guide to e-Business; and Data Privacy in the Information Age. She is also a coeditor of the ABA Guide to International Business Negotiations: A Comparison of Cross-Cultural Issues and Successful Approaches. Klosek is the recipient of the Telford Taylor Fellowship in Public International Law and the recipient of NJBiz.com's 40 Under 40 award.

For more information, review copies, or interviews please contact the author at:

Jacqueline Klosek
Email:  jacquelineklosek@gmail.com
Website: http://www.jacquelineklosek.com

Available for purchase online from the author’s website, from the publisher, Amazon.com and BN.com  

Bookstores should contact Ingram or Baker & Taylor for wholesale orders.

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