| "Is your health history anyone's business?" McCall's Magazine 4/95 p 54, reported by M Bruce on Usenet newsgroup comp.society.privacy, 22 Mar 1995 |
.... experience of abuse [GTP93] ffl forty percent of insurers disclose personal health information to lenders, employers or marketers without customer permission [CR94] and over half of America s largest 500 companies admitted using health records to make hiring and other personnel decisions [Bru95]; ffl a banker on a state health commission had access to a list of all the patients in his state who had been diagnosed with cancer. He crossreferenced it with his client list and called in the patients loans [HRM93] ffl a US drug company has gained access to a database of prescriptions for 56 ....
"Is your health history anyone's business?" McCall's Magazine 4/95 p 54, reported by M Bruce on Usenet newsgroup comp.society.privacy, 22 Mar 1995
.... experience of abuse [GTP93] forty percent of insurers disclose personal health information to lenders, employers or marketers without customer permission [CR94] and over half of America s largest 500 companies admitted using health records to make hiring and other personnel decisions [Bru95]; a banker on a state health commission had access to a list of all the patients in his state who had been diagnosed with cancer. He crossreferenced it with his client list and called in the patients loans [HRM93] a US drug company has gained access to a database of prescriptions for 56 ....
"Is your health history anyone's business?" McCall's Magazine 4/95 p 54, reported by M Bruce on Usenet newsgroup comp.society.privacy, 22 Mar 1995
.... had personal experience of abuse [6] ffl Forty percent of insurers disclose medical information to lenders, employers or marketers without customer permission [7] and over half of America s largest 500 companies admitted using medical records to make hiring and other personnel decisions [8]; ffl Eli Lilley has gained access to a database of prescriptions for 56 million people by purchasing PCS Health Systems for 4 billion. It now plans to trawl the database for patients whose prescriptions suggest that they might be suffering from depression manifested as several other minor ....
Levine Is your health history anyone's business? McCall's Magazine 1995 Apr:54. Reported by M Bruce on Usenet newsgroup comp.society.privacy, 22 Mar 1995
....that would be considered highly abusive in the UK. For example, forty percent of insurers disclose personal health information to lenders, employers or marketers without customer permission [18] over half of America s largest 500 companies admitted using health records in personnel decisions [16]; and US firms are regularly taken over for the value of the medical records under their control. Indeed, most Americans are coming to feel that these practices are worrying, and a quarter have personal experience of abuse [33] This has led to a number of bills being introduced or proposed at ....
"Is your health history anyone's business?" McCall's Magazine 4/95 p 54, reported by M Bruce on Usenet newsgroup comp.society.privacy, 22 Mar 1995
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