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Heart Gadgets Test Privacy-Law Limits - WSJ.com

The small box inside Amanda Hubbard's chest beams all kinds of data about
her faulty heart to the company that makes her defibrillator implant.

Ms. Hubbard herself, however, can't easily get that information unless she
requests summaries from her doctor—whom she rarely sees since losing her
insurance. In short, the data gathered by the
Medtronic<http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=MDT>Inc.
MDT +0.16%<http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=MDT?mod=inlineTicker>implant
isn't readily accessible to the person whose heartbeat it tracks.

"This is my health information," said Ms. Hubbard, 36 years old. "They are
collecting it from my chest."



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