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Tuesday, May 01, 2007Now a San Francisco-based company called Practice Fusion is offering doctors a free, web-based electronic medical records system — with a couple catches, according to an article in this week’s American Medical News (a newsletter published by the American Medical Association). One catch is that ads (served by Google, of course) would appear alongside the records. The other catch is that the company would mine the records to sell data to third parties. The data would be modified to protect the anonymity of patients. Sigh. posted by Sydney on 5/01/2007 07:01:00 PM 2 comments 2 Comments:Such a scheme would be illegal unless the company got a release from every patient. And very few people would sign that release.
I really like the idea of my medical history being available to any doctor I see, especially in an emergency when I wouldn't be, for some reason, capable of providing pertinent information. But clearly, current plans on offer would just make me a commercial target at the least and who knows what at the worst. By 11:09 AM , at |
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