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The Aetna CEO Must Have Missed This

October 6th, 2007 by DrRich

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog now posts that Aetna CEO Ron Williams is “perplexed” about all the press coverage Microsoft has gotten for the launch of its on-line personal health record, while in stark contrast Aetna received almost no recognition from the press when it launched its own personal health record several months ago. To Mr. Williams this just doesn’t seem fair.

DrRich agrees, and thinks that the “advantages” of giving the big insurance conglomerates free access all your personal health information should indeed be broadcast far and wide. This is why (though Mr. Williams must have missed it), DrRich took pains to do just that a few months ago when the story was first abroad.

Perhaps what Mr. Williams should really be worried about is that apparently, Americans are ready to trust Microsoft (the company whose infamous security flaws have launched a huge and robust software security industry) with their personal health information instead of their health insurance companies. DrRich supposes they would rather trust an indifferent party (where, if security breaches occur, at least they will be inadvertent), than a party whose business model seems to allow (if not rely on) the purposeful maltreatment of their clients’ medical histories.

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