In today's Austin Bulldog...

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Maybe you, like so many others, couldn't get away on vacation this
summer. Never mind. If you were a patient in a Texas hospital in the
past ten years, the intimate details of your hospital stay made the
trip for you. This could be your souvenir: “My hospital story went to
Colorado, Arizona, California, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee,
Washington, D.C., Dallas, Texas, and maybe my employer, and all I got
was—heck, not even a T-shirt.”

Let’s say your spouse suffered a heart attack three years ago, was
successfully treated at a Texas hospital, and today gratefully eats a
Mediterranean diet. You might be surprised to learn that the intimate
details of that hospital stay—not just the diagnosis, surgeries, and
who paid the bill, but your spouse’s date of birth, gender, and
address—were sold by the Texas Department of State Health Services
(DSHS). The detailed story of that hospital stay now sits in computers
across the country.
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Bruce White, CRM, PMP
Orange County, CA
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