Arielle Levin Becker reports on privacy concerns about Connecticut’s development of an all-payers claim database:
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But Dr. Susan Israel, who said she had been following patients’ “privacy rights, or lack thereof,” said it was important to know who would be handling patient data that hadn’t been de-identified.
“The public really needs to understand, first of all, that their data’s being taken without their consent, and that there may be a number of people who will be seeing their identified data,” she said.
Israel, who described the database as an “unprecedented threat to our medical privacy,” said the goal of transparency in medical costs could be achieved by instead gathering payment information from insurers and health care providers without patient-specific identification.
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