medical records

Who profits from medical records?

By Paul W. Glimcher, Ph.D. for Medical Economics Medical records, which most patients think are private and protected, are in reality lucrative commodities in a multibillion-dollar industry. As hospitals and health networks assemble these records, they routinely strip away names and other identifiers and sell millions of HIPAA-compliant files to massive aggregator corporations. Aggregators in…

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Who profits from our medical records?

By Paul W. Glimcher, Ph.D. for Medical Economics Medical records, which most patients think are private and protected, are in reality lucrative commodities in a multi-billion-dollar industry. As hospitals and health networks assemble these records, they routinely strip away names and other identifiers and sell millions of HIPAA-compliant files to massive aggregator corporations. Aggregators in…

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Opinion: It’s Your Right To See Your Medical Records. It Shouldn’t Be This Hard To Do

Harlan Krumholz from NPR At a time when many insurers and health information technology companies are busily assembling databases of hundreds of millions of medical records, Americans find it difficult to get access to their own. If you try to get yours, be prepared for confusing policies, ill-informed staff, wasted time and high costs. Even…

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Hundreds of patient records found burning across from Atlanta hospital

By Mackenzie Garrity for Becker’s Hospital Review Piles of patient records were found burning in a dumpster across the street from Atlanta-based Southside Medical Clinic, according to WSBTV. Southside Medical Clinic is unsure how hundreds of patients’ medical records were found burning in the dumpster and stacked outside in shipping crates. A WSBTV representative who…

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