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Article: Aetna Endorses Markle Foundation Efforts to Ensure Privacy and Security of Consumers' Health Information Online.
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- Business Wire
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- July 1, 2008
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Aetna (NYSE:AET) today announced its support of a newly released Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information developed by Connecting for Health, a public-private collaboration operated by the Markle Foundation. The Connecting for Health Common Framework outlines how consumers' online health information is kept private, including guidelines for developing clear privacy policies, allowing consumers to control copies of their health data and preventing third parties from obtaining information without a consumer's authorization. The goal of the Common Framework is to increase consumers' use of online tools such as Personal Health Records (PHR) by ...