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Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing
An anonymous reader sends in a link to this story about medical transcription work and patient privacy. You probably recall the original story (from around October 2003), but the Chronicle here does a great job of tracing the entire chain of sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-contracting.
if some indian knows i have genital herpes..... i mean, the whole of slashdot knows!
since I stole someone's identity a while back.
And no I was never a football tight end.
Help end the use of Sigs. Tomorrow
She said she e-mailed him at what she assumed was his important U.S. company, Tutranscribe, although the firm didn't have its own Web site, only an AOL account.
"You've got (black)mail!"
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
If I had such an affliction, I would argue that god had helped me.
I do! :)
A medical wiki
Allowing diagnosis treatment charts to be followed, and a place to enter new symptoms and conditions effecting the decision.
Get the doctors insterested in a scheme and build up a huge medical database.
Peer review then sorts out the crappy answers from the useful.
liqbase
Can we bash Pakistan instead?
:)
Go a little bit farther north and we can say that the terrorists did it in their Afghan training camps.
No doubt Katz (were he still with us) would tell us about Abdul Komodor who uploads full length movies of patients' records to the internet from his Commodore 64.
Fellowship 9/11
Is it just me, or is Florida a common link in most of the scams that go on in the US?
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