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	<description>What could your health records reveal? Take control. Protect your privacy, liberty and opportunities.</description>
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		<title>Insecurities Plague Electronic Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While EHRs project substantial savings, there is much more at risk requiring greater focus on privacy and security.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/07/insecurities-plague-electronic-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Switch To Digital Medical Records Raises Concerns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See the video where Practice Fusion admits to selling your information without your consent. Deborah Peel explains how detrimental this is.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/07/switch-to-digital-medical-records-raises-concerns/</link>
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		<title>HHS proposes stronger privacy protections under HIPAA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stimulus bill required HHS to modify HIPAA, and proposed rule will strengthen and modify HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules. See how.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/07/hhs-proposes-stronger-privacy-protections-under-hipaa/</link>
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		<title>PPR impressed with HHS&#8217; privacy approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New HHS Policy: “no one has access to personal information unless you want them to.”]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/07/ppr-impressed-with-hhs-privacy-approach/</link>
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		<title>HHS pitches new patient privacy safeguards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HHS FINALLY states that "privacy and security of personal health data is at the core of all of our work."]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/07/hhs-pitches-new-patient-privacy-safeguards/</link>
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		<title>ONC IS MAKING HISTORY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ATTEND THE FIRST EVER HEARING ON PRIVACY-ENHANCING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE NATION.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/06/onc-is-making-history/</link>
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		<title>Attention doctors and vendors: Selling patient data without informed consent is now a federal crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your health records have been used to make money for a long time now. Not only does this violate your privacy, but there is finally a law against it.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/05/attention-doctors-and-vendors-selling-patient-data-without-informed-consent-is-now-a-federal-crime/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Peel Testifies before Texas Public Health Committee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PPR founder, Dr. Deborah Peel, testifies before the Texas Public Health Committee which was discussing the implementation of HIT.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/05/dr-peel-testifies-before-texas-public-health-committee/</link>
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		<title>Re: State agency swaps babies&#8217; blood for supplies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After using newborn babies' bloodspots without proper consent, the state of Texas is getting it wrong again.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/05/blog-tx-baby-bloodspots/</link>
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		<title>Problems with IBM&#8217;s new &#8220;massive&#8221; research study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem is IBM’s research project does not appear to start with obtaining informed consent from the individuals (or their parents) whose data will be collected and studied.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/05/problems-with-ibms-new-massive-research-study/</link>
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		<title>State agency swaps babies&#8217; blood for supplies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies use blood to produce and test equipment. Previously WITHOUT consent.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/05/state-agency-swaps-babies-blood-for-supplies/</link>
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		<title>IBM launches massive health data research project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IBM has announced it has launched a multi-year research project to connect and analyze enormous collections of data from a wide variety of sources to find ways to improve health.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/05/ibm-launches-massive-health-data-research-project/</link>
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		<title>AthenaHealth Paying Dearly to Take on Larger Rivals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AthenaHealth plans to use your records to make money. They explain how here.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/05/athenahealth-paying-dearly-to-take-on-larger-rivals/</link>
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		<title>Nominate PPR &amp; Keep Privacy Powerful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year Modern Healthcare encourages the public to nominate and vote for the "100 Most Powerful in Healthcare".  Do you have a moment to keep Patient Privacy Rights at the top?]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/04/nominate-ppr-keep-privacy-powerful/</link>
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		<title>Latanya Sweeney Briefs Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We applaud Professor Sweeney for pointing out the serious technical problems with the NHIN proposals AND proposing the solution: risk analysis of all technical systems for exchanging health data...]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/04/latanya-sweeney-testifies-before-congress/</link>
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		<title>Controversial medical records database suspended</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A controversial scheme to upload confidential medical records to a national database has been suspended following public outcry.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/04/controversial-medical-records-database-suspended/</link>
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		<title>Your Medical Records Aren&#8217;t Secure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4/24/10 A patient's sensitive information should not be shared without his consent. But this is not the case now, as the country moves toward a system of electronic medical records.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/04/your-medical-records-arent-secure/</link>
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		<title>PPR on article: What &#8216;Patient-Centered&#8217; Should Mean&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is extremely helpful that the nominee to head of one of the largest federal agencies, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), stated he believes medical records should belong to patients.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/04/patient-centered-don-berwick/</link>
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		<title>Discussion on Targeting in the UK using the National Health Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How would American cancer patients feel about being targeted by political groups?]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/04/targeting-uk-using-the-nhs/</link>
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		<title>UK: Labour [Party] attacked over mailshot to cancer patients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UK patients are outraged over whether the government NHS (National Health Service) data base was used to find individual cancer patients and pressure them to vote for the Labour party.]]></description>
		<link>http://patientprivacyrights.org/2010/04/uk-labour-party-attacked-over-mailshot-to-cancer-patients/</link>
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