by Veronika Kyrylenko
Lawmakers in Nebraska have created a state Health Information Technology — or HIT — Board. The point of the HIT Board is to collect people’s health information.
They say the information will go into a centralized data and surveillance system that will be used by doctors to “improve” patient care. In 2020, during the height of Covid mania, Nebraska’s Legislature passed the Population Health Information Act, which paved the way for the HIT Board.
The board is made up of doctors and healthcare experts, and it oversees a huge regional data utility called CyncHealth.
CyncHealth manages the health information of more than five million patients across the Midwest. This includes patient histories, physicals, vaccinations, medication histories, allergies, and troves of other personal information.
Some warn that this will open the door to digital IDs and a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Stacey Skold is a board member of the Children’s Health Defense Nebraska Chapter.
She said, “If you connect the dots, we’ve laid the groundwork for digital IDs and CBDC — and that’s alarming. When you talk about CBDC and a social credit system, it seems far off. But it seems very near here and starting in a very specific way.”
The concerns are justified. CyncHealth is a member of the CARIN Alliance, a global, multi-sector nonprofit that works with government agencies such as Health and Human Services; corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Pfizer; and other technology heavyweights.
The organization is devoted to developing global digital ID credentials, and it has partnered with the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, and the Vaccine Credentials Initiative.
The Vaccine Credentials Initiative created the so-called SMART Health Cards, which were used as vaccine passports during the pandemic in more than 20 states.
California vaccine-rights attorney Greg Glaser warned that Nebraska serves as a testing ground for statewide health-data harvesting. He said it is only a matter of time before the vax cards and other digital medical cards evolve into digital IDs.
Independent journalist James Roguski told Children’s Health Defense that Nebraskans need to seek legal recourse by invoking the power of a referendum under Nebraska’s constitution.
