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To the Editor: Dr. Woodward (April 25 issue)¹ points to Maryland's Medical care Data Base, established by the Health Care Access and Cost Commission, as one example of how patients' privacy is being eroded. Dr. Woodward is misinformed.

The data base consists of a subgroup of data submitted to insurance companies for billing purposes. The patient identifier is encrypted by the insurance carrier and is not unique from one year to the next. The data regulations have recently been changed to remove the exact date of birth and the race variable. The commission has also decided to re-encrypt the identifier . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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