Kaiser Permanente Announces Latest Healthcare Organization to Face Litigation Over Data Sharing

kow5101 June 1, 2023

A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges that it allowed tech companies to access private patient data for advertising purposes. The complaint, filed by a California patient known as John Doe, claims that the health system’s website and patient portal contained code that granted companies—including Google, Bing, Twitter, Adobe, and Quantum Metric—access to personal information. Kaiser joins a growing list of health systems being sued over their alleged sharing of patient information with tech companies via consumer-tracking technology. The complaint asks for damages and injunctive and declaratory relief. Kaiser Permanente is the health system awaiting approval of an acquisition of Pennsylvania’s Geisinger Health System.

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Network_News October 27, 2022

Food Marketing Companies Add More to Black and Latinos’ Plates

US food and beverage companies disproportionately target Black and Latino consumers with advertising for high-calorie, low-nutrient products, including candy, sugary drinks, and snacks, according to a new study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Health at the University of Connecticut. This targeted advertising has been a problem for years and is consistent with …
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Network_News November 17, 2022

Addressing Rural Health Inequities in Medicare

Approximately 61 million Americans live in rural, tribal, and geographically isolated communities across the United States. These communities often experience significant health inequities. Compared to urban Americans, rural Americans are more likely to have heart disease, stroke, cancer, unintentional injuries, suicide risk, and chronic lung disease, and have higher death rates from COVID-19. As clinicians, […]
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lad3 February 11, 2023

Jennifer Rangel: Creating Bilingual Cartoons to Teach Zoning 101

“Ever wondered why your neighborhood looks how it does?” Jennifer Rangel once asked herself this question. To find an answer, Rangel, got a master’s degree in urban planning. Along the way, this Latina planner learned that discriminatory urban planning practices, like the zoning of land, had been used for white advantage for over a century, …
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