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View Post: Privacy Activism » Blog Archive » Electronic Medical Records – Act ...
20 hours ago by deborah  
Electronic Medical Records – Act now to protect your privacy. The California state government is preparing to transfer all Californians' health records into a new electronic system. But there's a problem: The system they¹re planning to use has serious privacy and security flaws. ... In order to truly protect your privacy, the system should be opt-in (those who want to share your personal information must get permission from you before they share your data) only. ...
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View Post: MediConnect » Blog Archive » News Bureau 11-18 to 11-23
3 hours ago by admin2  
A 2005 report by the think tank Rand Corp. estimated that a properly designed network could save the health care system as much as $77 billion per year by providing doctors with the necessary tools to make decisions. ... Beginning Thursday, no matter where most of Florida's 2.6 million Medicaid recipients go for health care, their medical records will travel with them. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and a Jacksonville firm are launching a Web site that ...
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View Post: Premeditated Genocide By Lack of Health Care Insurance: Senate ...
7 hours ago by greathierophant@yahoo.com  
Whether you're for or against federal efforts to help people buy health insurance, you should know that the reform bill before the Senate would mandate a healthcare system that is definitely "not free." .... Translation: Your personal health information may soon be studied by government scientists. Washington is creating a new research center that plans to use patients' electronic health records for conducting research and creating disease registries. ...
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View Post: Laptop With Personal Information Stolen From Aurora St. Luke's ...
2 hours ago
"The computer was stolen from a locked office in a secure physician office building that's located adjacent to the hospital, and the computer belongs to an employee of Cogent Healthcare of Wisconsin," said Anna Hancock of Cogent Healthcare ... On Wednesday, Cogent began notifying those people, sending out a letter explaining that their name, Social Security number, date of birth, diagnosis codes, medical record number and related information may have been on that computer ...
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View Post: A Vote For Health Care, A Vote Against Gun Rights?
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View Post: Personal Health Records–Who Are the Key PHR Providers and How Are ...
22 Nov 2009 by admin  
Increased Service. Healthcare providers, in general, acknowledge that their personal health record systems are just part of the service and a happy client will remain with the system. Google Health indicates they aren't in the ... ... Numerous companies providing personal health records (PHR), medical health records, and electronic health records or some way of storing and delivering medical information electronically were in existence for several years prior to the Bush ...
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View Post: What do you see as the purpose of health insurance?
4 hours ago by hirby  
item 3 reduces the cost of duplicate care by providing all medical records for patient to each provider. Many, many patients can not recall who they saw for what reason five years ago, nor why drug Z's use was stopped. ... I believe that we should have a single-payer system as Sen Clinton has proposed in the past. Under such a system all taxpayers would pay so that all people can receive appropriate health care. It doesn't make sense to me that insurance companies should ...
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View Post: Personal Health Information Privacy » Cleveland VA employees may ...
24 Nov 2009 by Dissent  
The Cleveland Veterans Affairs hospital is investigating whether employees snooped in serial killing suspect Anthony Sowell's private medical records. A spokeswoman for the Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center confirmed that an ...
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View Post: Health, Money and Fear
63ok
1 hour ago by admin   ...
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