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Why should the government, or a private entity like CIVHC, be able to collect information about the health care services I’m using?
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How does the CO APCD keep information private and safe?
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Will my medical information be at risk to data breaches I’ve read about?
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How can you guarantee us that no one will hack into the CO APCD?
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As a patient, can I opt out of having my information included in the CO APCD?
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Insurance claims show diagnosis codes, not just treatment codes, so could someone get into the CO APCD and see that I have cancer, or AIDS?
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How can you adequately protect the health information of people living in rural areas where the population is so low that it wouldn’t be difficult to determine who a person of a certain age with a certain diagnosis is?
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If you take out the zip codes from sparsely-populated areas, won’t it be difficult to be able to see health care utilization from, say, the eastern plains?
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I’ve heard that 87 percent of the population can be accurately identified with just 3 pieces of information: zip code, birthday and gender, so can’t someone get into the CO APCD and get enough information to steal my identity?
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What do you mean by “date of birth will be changed to age or age range”?
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What would a hacker see if he got into the database?
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How does the CO APCD Data Manager ensure their employees with access to the database don’t hack in remotely or that a disgruntled former employee doesn’t hack in?
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Could an employer or law enforcement agency requisition information about an individual from the CO APCD?
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Could the federal government request information about an individual from the CO APCD?
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Will you ever release identified information?
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Is CIVHC going to sell my health information to make the CO APCD sustainable?
