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Daily Dashboard | Privacy concerns raised over health insurers' use of medical data Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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ProPublica reports on one man’s discovery of how his medical device was tracking his use and sending information to his doctor, the maker of the machine, the medical supply company that had provided it, and his health insurer. Tony Schmidt, who required a CPAP breathing machine to sleep, said he was unaware of the data-sharing arrangement and filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and the federal government without response. Privacy advocates have raised concern that the growing trend of tracking, surveillance and data collection among health insurers has breached patient privacy and threatened health care.
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