N.C. Looks For Money To Meet Federal Mandate To Secure Medical Records

WRAL-TV 5 (Raleigh. NC) ^ | 4/19/2002 | Fred Taylor

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RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina is supposed to spend money to protect medical records. The problem is that the state does not have the money to do it.

You may think your medical records are secure, but the federal government believes your private information could easily fall into the wrong hands.

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Just another unfunded federal mandate. Spend somebody else's money, right? It all comes from us in the end.

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The risk for the security of Medical Records falls squarely with the Insurance Companies. These are the people that have your Medical information tranfered from the medical professsional to an outside source.

The Insurance Companies can and do "share" and sell your medical history and information. Along with this is your Social Security Number so that they know exactly for whom the information is about.