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Submitted: September 14, 2005 - 12:14pm
Last updated: July 10, 2008 - 10:37pm
Last updated: July 10, 2008 - 10:37pm
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Washington Post
Author:
Jonathan Krim
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. Electronic health records are controversial among many privacy advocates, who fear the data could be exploited by hackers, companies or the government.
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