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OT: Anyone Google Anyone's Medical Records?
From: Al Mac Wheel <macwheel99 () wowway com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:49:04 -0600
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9875967-7.html?tag=head Google is set to announce on Thursday that it will be using the Cleveland Clinic hospital in Cleveland, Ohio as the pilot site for its new personal health records initiative. Between 1,500 and 10,000 patients at the Cleveland, Ohio, facility will participate in the project's test run, volunteering to have their medical records transferred to their Google accounts. [..] Included in the data will be prescription information, medical histories, and details about conditions and allergies. [..] third-party PHR systems that aren't covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), which has been in effect since 1996 and requires individuals to be notified when a party other than a patient's doctor wants to access confidential medical data. Not only is security an issue, the nonprofit has said, so is the likelilhood that marketers and other corporate entities will be able to exploit otherwise confidential data. The World Privacy Forum has not taken a specific stance on Google's new project or on others like Microsoft's. [..] - Al Mac _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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