Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale
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PizzaFace writes “The Washington Post reports on the booming business of selling your medical treatment records. Today these are mainly records of your prescriptions, but the data warehouses will soon have records of your lab tests, too. The companies selling these records make it easy for insurance companies to avoid risk by assigning each person a health score, similar to a credit score, or by flagging items in each person’s history that suggest chronic or potentially expensive health problems. It’s not just for insurers, either; employers who check applicants’ credit scores will surely be interested in their health scores as well.”
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, electronic records advocates. There is nothing new under the sun.
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Bill
August 6th, 2008
at 4:45pm
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leftystrat
August 6th, 2008
at 9:30pm
Nicely done, Bill.
The site is comprehensive and I’ll be going over it little by little as time allows. I recommend that everyone go over it.
Thanks.
E2001
August 6th, 2008
at 9:42pm
Umm… So what? They’ve been doing this for years. Decades, even! What’s news?
leftystrat
August 7th, 2008
at 2:54pm
It’s getting worse, plus most people don’t know it’s happening. With the whole push for electronic records, it’s not going to be any prettier.
Thanks.