Medical Privacy Coalition The Medical Privacy Coalition (MPC) is dedicated to upholding the long-standing and fundamental confidentiality right of individuals to decide when and to whom their personal health information is disclosed. Patient control over the flow of their personal health information is essential for maintaining patients' confidential relationships with doctors and other health providers, and for the delivery of quality health care. To accomplish its mission, the MPC seeks to restore, maintain, and improve individuals' right to give their informed consent before their personal health information is shared with others, including for purposes related to health-care treatment, payment and health-care operations. The MPC is seeking to obtain administrative, legislative and/or judicial action to ensure that individuals' consent is obtained prior to the release of their personal health information. For more information on the MPC-

Opposing Plans to Make Government-Directed Health Care Permanent Law In Minnesota

• Violate Privacy Rights: Government must not build statewide electronic medical record systems to facilitate government tracking and reporting of patient care—and physician adherence to government-approved treatment protocols. Patients have a right to keep their private medical records free from government inspection, assessment, or collection.

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The NHIN has been proposed by data collectors, data miners, data profiteers, and public and private purveyors of health surveillance and statistically-devised rationing of care. These include government agencies, health plans, disease management companies, researchers, and the more than 200 members of WEDI, the Working Group on Electronic Data Interchange.