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	<title>Privacy Lives &#187; Medical data</title>
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		<title>Kaiser Health News: Hospitals mine patient records in search of customers</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/kaiser-health-news-hospitals-mine-patient-records-in-search-of-customers/2012/02/07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaiser Health News (an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan health policy research and communication organization) reports that hospitals are searching the medical data of patients to figure out ways to advertise health services to them: When the oversized postcard arrived last August from Provena St. Joseph Medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HealthLeaders Media: Q&amp;A: Farzad Mostashari on Meaningful Use, Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HealthLeaders Media has an interview with Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for health information technology at the Department of Health and Human Services, about the use of and privacy protection of patient medical data: HLM:  What are three toughest challenges you plan to tackle in 2012? Mostashari: Adoption of meaningful use, information exchange and interoperability, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Point-Counterpoint: Should Every Patient Have a Unique ID Number for All Medical Records?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Wall Street Journal, two experts answer the question: &#8220;Should Every Patient Have a Unique ID Number for All Medical Records?&#8221; &#8220;Proponents say universal patient identifiers, or UPIs, deserve a serious look because they are the most efficient way to connect patients to their medical data. [...] Privacy activists aren&#8217;t buying it. They say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Associated Press: Lawsuit: Debt collector broke patient privacy laws</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/associated-press-lawsuit-debt-collector-broke-patient-privacy-laws/2012/01/23/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/associated-press-lawsuit-debt-collector-broke-patient-privacy-laws/2012/01/23/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports on a lawsuit concerning patient privacy in Minnesota: Attorney General Lori Swanson sued a debt collection agency that works with two Minnesota hospitals on Thursday, saying it failed to keep health care records for tens of thousands of patients confidential and did not tell patients just how much it was involved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>InformationWeek: Patient Data Theft Sends IT Specialist To Jail</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/informationweek-patient-data-theft-sends-it-specialist-to-jail/2012/01/19/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/informationweek-patient-data-theft-sends-it-specialist-to-jail/2012/01/19/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[InformationWeek reports that a man hacked into a medical database to steal patient information: Eric McNeal, a 38-year-old information technology specialist from Atlanta, Ga., has been sentenced for hacking into the patient database of a former employer, stealing patient information, and then deleting the information from the system. For his crime, McNeal was sentenced on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post: Privacy rights activists worry about potential abuse of devices featured at CES</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/washington-post-privacy-rights-activists-worry-about-potential-abuse-of-devices-featured-at-ces/2012/01/11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/washington-post-privacy-rights-activists-worry-about-potential-abuse-of-devices-featured-at-ces/2012/01/11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports on possible privacy questions surrounding new technology featured at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: The thousands of devices debuting Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show here demonstrate how tech companies are poised to gather unprecedented insights into consumers’ lives — how much they eat, whether they exercise, when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHS Releases Privacy Impact Assessment on FAST/Passive Methods for Precision Behavioral Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/dhs-releases-privacy-impact-assessment-on-fastpassive-methods-for-precision-behavioral-screening/2012/01/11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/dhs-releases-privacy-impact-assessment-on-fastpassive-methods-for-precision-behavioral-screening/2012/01/11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Privacy Office has released a privacy impact assessment, &#8220;Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST)/Passive Methods for Precision Behavioral Screening, DHS/S&#38;T/PIA-012(a)&#8221; (DHS pdf; archive pdf); this is an update to a Privacy Impact Assessment (pdf) released in 2008. FAST, which I wrote about four years ago, seeks to divine an individual’s criminal or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian (UK): How anonymous is NHS patient data?</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/guardian-uk-how-anonymous-is-nhs-patient-data/2011/12/13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/guardian-uk-how-anonymous-is-nhs-patient-data/2011/12/13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the BBC News reported that British Prime Minister David Cameron said he sought  change so that the National Health Service could automatically opt-in all of its patients so their medical data would be used for research. A patient would have to opt-out if he or she did not want the personal medical data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPR: Apps Can Help You Take A Pill, But Privacy&#8217;s A Big Question</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/npr-apps-can-help-you-take-a-pill-but-privacys-a-big-question/2011/12/06/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/npr-apps-can-help-you-take-a-pill-but-privacys-a-big-question/2011/12/06/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR reports on medical privacy and smartphone apps: The American Medical Association just rolled out a shiny new iPhone app, My Medications, that you can use to keep track of your meds. Mobile medical apps are a hot market, but unlike &#8220;Angry Birds,&#8221; they&#8217;re not just harmless fun. Some come with real privacy risks. Sure, many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC News: Everyone &#8216;to be research patient,&#8217; says David Cameron</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/bbc-news-everyone-to-be-research-patient-says-david-cameron/2011/12/06/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/bbc-news-everyone-to-be-research-patient-says-david-cameron/2011/12/06/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News reports on the issue of medical privacy in the UK: Every NHS patient should be a &#8220;research patient&#8221; with their medical details &#8220;opened up&#8221; to private healthcare firms, says David Cameron. The PM says it will mean all those who use the NHS in England will be helping in the fight against disease. He [...]]]></description>
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