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ArticleJournal of patient experience2022

Use of Patients' Protected Health Information to Solicit Hospital Funds: How did This Practice Come About?

Uma V Mahajan, Vahid Wafapoor, Omkar A Mahajan, William S Anderson

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Article in Journal of patient experience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Uma V MahajanSchool of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3834-9318
Vahid WafapoorStrategic Innovation Group, LLC, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Omkar A MahajanSchool of Law, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
William S AndersonJohns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modifications to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have allowed for the disclosure of patient protected health information (PHI) for the purpose of hospital fundraising. The public has recently raised ethical concerns regarding these practices. We examined the forces that brought about these HIPAA modifications. We first examined 304 comments submitted to the proposed rule for the HIPPA regulation modifications. We additionally queried the

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grateful patient programsHIPAA modificationshospital fundraising

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PMID35694011
PMCPMC9185007

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