Coming Soon: My New Book on Health Privacy

May 13, 2010 · Posted in privacy · Comment 

Good news! My latest book, Protecting Your Health Privacy: A Citizen’s Guide to Safeguarding the Security of Your Medical Information, has been given an estimated release date of Nov. 30, 2010, by Praeger Publishers.

Here’s the publisher’s description:

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.

In plain, nontechnical language, data security 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 and devious ways by which health care providers, insurers, employers, social networking sites, and marketers routinely collect, exploit, and exchange our personal health records.

For more info on the book, click here.

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    Jacqueline Klosek, Senior Counsel in the Business Law Department of Goodwin Procter LLP, is a frequent author and commentator on data privacy and security. You can email her at jacquelineklosek@gmail.com
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