[Med-privacy] Initiate Systems

[Peter Marshall]

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=A0Privacy advocates concerned about CIA investment in e-health firm

Privacy advocates in the United States and Canada have serious concerns=20=

about the privacy of electronic health records accessed through master=20=

patient index software developed by Initiate Systems, which recently=20
received funding from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central=20=

Intelligence Agency.

Canadian privacy advocates have called for a federal and provincial=20
investigation into the relationship among the CIA, In-Q-Tel and=20
Initiate.

The Veterans Health Administration uses Initiate's Identity Hub to=20
eliminate duplicate records and improve matching of records in its=20
master person index (MPI), which has 12 million entries. The software=20
is also used to help match patient records in a three-state regional=20
health information organization that the Markle Foundation's Connecting=20=

for Health supports.

The company's software is widely used in Canada, particularly in the=20
provinces of Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Ontario. Canada=20
Health Infoway, a federally funded nonprofit corporation that leads=20
e-health efforts in the country, signed an agreement to use Initiate=20
MPI software throughout Canada in May 2004, almost two years before=20
In-Q-Tel made its investment in Initiate this March.

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Veterans Health Administration uses Initiate's Identity Hub to
eliminate duplicate records and improve matching of records in its
master person index (MPI), which has 12 million entries. The software
is also used to help match patient records in a three-state regional
health information organization that the Markle Foundation's
Connecting for Health supports.</x-tad-smaller></color><x-tad-smaller>


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company's software is widely used in Canada, particularly in the
provinces of Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Ontario. Canada
Health Infoway, a federally funded nonprofit corporation that leads
e-health efforts in the country, signed an agreement to use Initiate
MPI software throughout Canada in May 2004, almost two years before
In-Q-Tel made its investment in Initiate this March.


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