Privacy

Abstract

Thank you for the opportunity to comment in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (proposed rule, NPRM), “HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy,” released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or the Department) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on April 12, 2023 and published in the Federal Register on April 17, 2023. The 125 groups signed on here represent members of the reproductive rights and justice and consumer advocacy communities, as well as reproductive and other health care providers, research organizations, health care advocacy groups, and civil rights and other allied organizations.