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Snooping – Medical Records Access Made Easy

2 Comments / Health /Medical Consumerism, Health Insurance, Healthcare Quality, Media, Medical Records, Patient Empowerment, Patient Safety, Patient Tools, Privacy and Security, Self Help

I exchange thoughts with healthcare IT people on a daily basis over at Twitter.  So many of them seem perplexed at why we patients look at putting our medical records on the internet with trepidation. Then along comes this video from Elizabeth Cohen at CNN.  In a matter of minutes, she was able to pull […]

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Is Google Strong-Arming the Feds to Allow Sale of Health Information?

1 Comment / Health /Medical Consumerism, Healthcare Quality, Media, Medical Records, Patient Empowerment, Patient Tools, Politics and Medicine, Privacy and Security, Self Help

For several years now, I’ve sounded the warning bells — stay away from those websites that allow you to put your own health records online for free…. You can’t imagine how much grief I’ve taken for that statement.  Especially when I point out that organizations like the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic are actually

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Trisha Torrey
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