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The Hospital promises to
safeguard the privacy of patients
and providers. We will not track the movements of
our customers
throughout the website. Any information that is
offered to us by
our customers will not be sold to any third
parties, and not even
shared with our partners without the expressed
permission from
the customer themselves.
Many
online businesses consider information gathered
from
customers as an asset to be sold or traded for
profit. Healthcare
companies even pursue such actions online. For
example, there
is a consortium of pharmaceutical companies that
are collecting
a database of consumer information by monitoring
movement of
people from a variety of websites. We consider
healthcare to be
a unique industry that requires the privacy of the
consumer at all
costs.
We
will also do our best to safeguard the privacy of
customers
from outside intruders. Given this priority, we
will use the Internet
only to send and receive medical records but not
for storage. The
medical records will be stored in a computer that
is never hooked
to a phone line or the Internet. Such drastic
security measures
reduce convenience, but insure privacy. Privacy
and security are
the most important factors that patients consider
when analyzing
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