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Your Medical Data Is Code Blue
Medical data companies aren’t doing all they can to protect your most private information. When they get hacked and patient data is stolen, it’s the patients who suffer.
“There are a whole range of harms that can follow a person far beyond financial impacts when we talk about targeting people based on their health vulnerabilities.” says Andrea Downing, cofounder of an grassroots activist organization called The Light Collective, which advocates for responsible medical data stewardship. Through some internet sleuthing I did find out that the eponymous Perry Johnson is a Michigan businessperson who had founded a network of tech-related corporations, including the one that does medical transcription and fails to safeguard personal data. Now she must take steps to protect herself, including re-examining charges closely, requesting a credit report and contacting the Federal Trade Commission to put her complaint into its extensive ID-theft database.
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