Re: cr> Medical Privacy

1996-04-17

Sender: •••@••.••• (Lutz Donnerhacke)

* Cyber Rights wrote:
>  CDT POLICY POST Volume 2, Number 14                          April 12, 1996
>
>  o  The revised S.1360 removes "health information services" from being
> treated as trustees, and now only allows them to receive personal health
> information with an individual's consent. Now, trustees, such as doctors,
> hospitals, and insurance companies, must anonymize personal health
> information prior to disclosing it to health information services, such as
> EDS or Equifax. A health information service may only strip the identifiers
> if they are under the control of a trustee as an employee or contractor.

Does EDS mean Electronic Data System (or similar) known as the world
largest company dealing with private informations? http://www.eds.com/
offers such an amount of companies EDS is involved with, that I can't
seriosly claim that EDS keep information private...


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