Protecting Patient Safety: Why Proposed Regulations Threaten Health Care Accountability
I am a past President of the New Jersey Association for Justice (a state affiliate of the American Association for Justice), a board member of the AAJ Leadership Forum and Political Action Committee, and the Founder of the NJ branch PAC, which I have led for over 30 years.
We fight for consumer rights and oppose unfair corporate and governmental interference with our rights, particularly our personal rights covered under the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution and our 14th Amendment rights of Citizenship, Equal Protection, and Due Process.
In essence, the proposed regulations are a deregulation that impacts a patient’s health. Electronic health records and their accompanying audit trail are vital sources of evidence—and often the only objective witness—in determining the truth when people are hurt in a health care system. It enables transparency and accountability.
The proposed rule will undermine the security of patient health information. The rule change would reduce transparency and erode accountability in our health care system at the expense of patient safety.
Evidence suggests a close, often symbiotic relationship between the U.S. government and the corporate health care sector, characterized by high lobbying expenditures and a significant “revolving door” of personnel and shared financial interests. The health sector is consistently the top spender on federal lobbying, with over $7.843 billion spent in 2024 alone.
It should come as no surprise that this proposed rule is the result of massive lobbying by the corporate health care industry.
Senior Partner at Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, P.C.
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