Monday, November 15, 2004

Chicagobusiness.com

Chicagobusiness.com: "Fund-raisers seek patient health data
Privacy waivers in use at Northwestern, Rush
By Sarah A. Klein
The biggest physician group at Northwestern Memorial Hospital is asking patients to waive new federal privacy rights so their names and medical diagnoses can be passed on to fund-raisers.
The aim is to identify patients interested in specific diseases who would likely support research initiatives. Raising money by targeting patients with a given illness was made more difficult by privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which went into effect in April 2003."

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