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Feds Expose Health Records Of Evacuees Online
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:19:28 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Date: September 15, 2005 7:26:58 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Fwd: Feds Expose Health Records Of Evacuees Online Words fail me. Has anyone even bothered to inform the victims that they're about to be victimized *again* by having their personal data exposed to anyone and everyone? ---Rsk----- Forwarded message from "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net> -----
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:19:32 GMT Subject: Feds Expose Health Records Of Evacuees Online Jonathan Krim writes in The Washington Post: [snip]The federal government is making medical information on Hurricane Katrina evacuees available online to doctors, the first time private records fromvarious pharmacies and other health care providers have been compiled into centralized databases. The data contain records from 150 Zip codes in areas hit by Katrina. Starting yesterday, doctors in eight shelters for evacuees could go to the Internet to search prescription drug records on more than 800,000 people from the storm-racked region. Officials hope to soon add computerized records from Medicaid in Mississippi and Louisiana, Department of Veterans Affairs health facilities, laboratories and benefits managers. The records are one step in reconstructing medical files on more than 1 million people disconnected from their regular doctors and drug stores. Officials fear that many medical records in the region,especially those that were not computerized, were lost to the storm andits aftermath. [snip]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/ AR2005091302128.html- ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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