[IP] Feds Expose Health Records Of Evacuees Online

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Date: September 15, 2005 7:26:58 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Fwd: Feds Expose Health Records Of Evacuees Online


Words fail me.  Has anyone even bothered to inform the victims that
they're about to be victimized *again* by having their personal data
exposed to anyone and everyone?

---Rsk


----- Forwarded message from "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)"  
<fergdawg@netzero.net> -----


> From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:19:32 GMT
> Subject: Feds Expose Health Records Of Evacuees Online
>
> Jonathan Krim writes in The Washington Post:
>
> [snip]
>
> The federal government is making medical information on Hurricane  
> Katrina
> evacuees available online to doctors, the first time private  
> records from
> various pharmacies and other health care providers have been compiled
> into centralized databases.
>
> The data contain records from 150 Zip codes in areas hit by
> Katrina. Starting yesterday, doctors in eight shelters for evacuees
> could go to the Internet to search prescription drug records on more
> than 800,000 people from the storm-racked region.
>
> Officials hope to soon add computerized records from Medicaid in
> Mississippi and Louisiana, Department of Veterans Affairs health
> facilities, laboratories and benefits managers.
>
> The records are one step in reconstructing medical files on more
> than 1 million people disconnected from their regular doctors and
> drug stores. Officials fear that many medical records in the region,
> especially those that were not computerized, were lost to the storm  
> and
> its aftermath.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/ 
> AR2005091302128.html
>
> - ferg
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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