<![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> Note that different schools get different funding. Berkeley does just fine (to be fair, they also get significant alumni donations as well as having income streams from sports and leasing out concert halls, technology licensing, etc etc). UCSF is one of the 'lesser' UC schools and thus gets less money.

revmatty

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> The picture w/ the cat is priceless. She's shaking down Fluffy for pocket change.

orielbean

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> From the rest of the year, Citibank pledges to donate 5% of all funds fraudulently taken from your accounts to the UCSF.

ChuckECheese

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> @dweebster:

There are lots of companies that do wealth screening for non-profits:

Blackbaud, WealthEngine, Kintera, Lexis-Nexis for Development Professionals, etc.

Pretty much every non-profit with a development office uses a wealth screening service.

Most of the data these screening companies provide comes from public records - county assessors, SEC documents, 990's, etc.

The problem here isn't the data that Target America has collected; the problem is the inadvertent disclosure of patients' medical information.

tinycorkscrew

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> @tinycorkscrew: Good to know that America is being Targeted. Apparently this company is living up to their name proudly.

dweebster

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> I never understood why hospitals would assume that former patients would be a good source for charitable contributions. It's not like they gave us a good deal on our medical procedures or did us any special favors. They provided a service, billed us, and we (or our insurers) paid for it.

My mom for a long time got regular contribution solicitations from the hospital where my dad ended up on the night that he passed away.

scoosdad

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> @howie_in_az:

Target America already had the data on the 30,000 people. That's why UCSF was contracting with them.

tinycorkscrew

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> So now Target America has data on some 30,000 people that TA can use to market other items for other customers unrelated to the hospital?

I'm in the wrong line of work.

howie_in_az

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> @timmus: I didn't even look at contractor's name till I saw your comment. "Target America"?! Doesn't that sound a little scary? It sounds like either a propaganda film produced by the USSR or an al-Queda project. I wonder if the FBI and/or CIA found this name particularly interesting...

Bay State Darren

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> Guess this is what happens when you outsource to a company that borrows the name of a department store.

timmus

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> Is this a veterinary hospital? Otherwise the photo doesn't work: an attractive female grabbing her pu-you know what, maybe I shouldn't finish that description.

Bay State Darren

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> Man, I don't know about anyone else, but this would piss me off.

ByeBye

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> Oh UC, will you ever learn?

matto

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> Hospital Cat Sez...

i'm in yur records
raizin' yur rates

ConsumptionJunkie

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> It's sad that the California GOP is starving the UC system - previously a national model for excellence - to the point that they need to scurry about for funds to educate their own populace. If professional schools are being razed in such a fashion, imagine the damage at the non-professional, undergraduate and community college levels.
Republicans hate your children and our future, people.

But yeah, UCSF should have been more on the ball.

Trai_Dep

]]> <![CDATA[University Of California Hospital Publicizes 6,000 Patient Records While Mining For Prospective Donors]]> They should provide free cardiac arrest treatment for these 6000 people when they get their credit card statements

thirdbase

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