Tag: the-public
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Dear Washington Post: Patients privacy rights are no joke
I read with dismay last week’s article by well known Washington Post business columnist Michelle Singletary, who questioned whether several hospital employees should have been fired by a hospital in New Zealand for inappropriately accessing the hospital’s electronic health record to view the information of a patient with a “titillating” medical emergency, and then sharing the records…
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Advocates, public consider Medicare cost savings as debate continues
Medicare costs — and controlling them — are on the minds of the public, patient advocates, lawmakers and doctors as the debate spills off Capitol Hill and into American discourse.