[privacy] Scary, Yet Real: Medical Records Database Would Span a Lifetime

[Blanchard_Michael at emc.com]

 it would be neat to read my records, but for novelty only....

  "Dr. So and So wrote WHAT about me when I was 7!!!?????"  :-)


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Loe [mailto:knobdy at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:50 PM
To: Fergie
Cc: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: Re: [privacy] Scary,Yet Real: Medical Records Database Would Span a Lifetime

On 12/6/06, Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:

>
> Dossia, which in 2007 will be made available to the companies' 2.5 million
> U.S. employees, dependents and retirees, will hold medical records from
> multiple sources for a person over their entire lifetime. The database
> could include test results and medical evaluations from various doctors'
> offices, hospitals and pharmacies.
>
> [snip]
>

Intuit is working on something similar - though they will pull the
data from various backend providers...I haven't yet figured out who
the target market is since I don't know anyone who cares that much
about their medical records.
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