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- jrm125, on 10/19/2009, -0/+22So...it'd be like a Carfax report for people you date?
That could come in handy. No more burning when you pee! - alphadoggs, on 10/19/2009, -0/+19This setup should be very good for journalists. Will be no shortage of horror stories to jump on
- muledoggie, on 10/19/2009, -0/+14Or they find out about your 6 months in the padded room back in the day ....
- gbo2k69, on 10/19/2009, -0/+10How did you know about that? Are you stalking me?
- Brak710101, on 10/19/2009, -1/+11Terrible example.
- bdbr, on 10/20/2009, -0/+9Apparently this is data as part of a doctor's medical information system. The doctor is under obligation to keep that data confidential, but the contract with the system provider has clauses that let them have access they shouldn't. That puts the liability on the doctor. I wonder if doctors will start closing this loophole before one of them gets sued.
- niradg, on 10/19/2009, -0/+8so the doctor can get sued if the vendor violates HIPAA? did I read that right?
- c3rb85, on 10/20/2009, -0/+7...or that time you got a hamster stuck in your rectum
- quirkopatra, on 10/20/2009, -1/+6I had to digg you down for not giving a better one.
- betona, on 10/20/2009, -0/+5...or your boob job
- crtjer, on 10/20/2009, -0/+3This has nothing to do with any healthcare reform bill. If the government is providing healthcare, then the providers that are created or used in this system, will have to follow HIPAA. Your records wouldn't be stored centrally, they would be stored at the office of practice that you are going to. Let's say even if it is centrally accessible, fine you have a central location of all medical records. Then a medical care provider would have to sign out the records and get permission to them. It doesn't need to be web-based if its centrally accessible.
- Phocion55, on 10/20/2009, -0/+3Doesn't Safe Harbor disallow this kind of stuff from happening? http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/eg_main_018236.as ...
"Organizations must notify individuals about the purposes for which they collect and use information about them. They must provide information about how individuals can contact the organization with any inquiries or complaints, the types of third parties to which it discloses the information and the choices and means the organization offers for limiting its use and disclosure"
"Organizations must give individuals the opportunity to choose (opt out) whether their personal information will be disclosed to a third party or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by the individual. For sensitive information, affirmative or explicit (opt in) choice must be given if the information is to be disclosed to a third party or used for a purpose other than its original purpose or the purpose authorized subsequently by the individual."
Moral of the story: As with anything, read the fine print and what you're agreeing to. - inactive, on 10/20/2009, -1/+4What is worse, someone might hack and put information there that wasn't... which could cause all kinds of grief for a person. Not good.
- crtjer, on 10/20/2009, -0/+3This is illegal. Under HIPAA you can't show anyone else medical record information except for care providers. You can't even give the physical records to the patient unless they fill out a form of authorization to release the medical record to themselves. I worked in medical records as a college job and HIPAA is very strict and followed. Anything I was working on had to be flipped over so no one could see it even while working at my desk. Usually the only people outside who had information were the companies that were going to destroy old records under federal guidelines. I think this situation all depends on how the data is being stored and where. I don't think that web-access should ever be an option.
- solorone, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2CC #s are not safe why do we think our medical data will be???
- WilliamDavis, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2What kind of ***** would be surprised by this outcome?
- pagno, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2It should be illegal for anyone to resell private data, including unprofitable-without-it social networking sites(yes, thats right, I want facebook and twitter to die).
- pak314, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2Simple solution... obtain the medical records for all the congress-critters and post it on a website.
- krisrm, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1:( I really wanted other people to sell my medical records for me, though! That settles it, I'm moving to California.
- dtele, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1Well, it's good for WIRED at the moment.
- vexeuz, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1I hope these docs and company get sue up the a... If not, HIPAA is BS!
- muledoggie, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1easy, bought it from a medical record re-marketer ... ;0
- SONYDVDR, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1Amen.
- Eorster, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1/s
- thoughtadvocate, on 10/20/2009, -1/+1You were lucky. We couldn't afford padding for MY room.
- proverbs17, on 10/20/2009, -1/+1ummm... how's the weather in your world :)
- burrdugg, on 10/20/2009, -7/+7United States health care is working so well.
The poor Canadians are stuck in a scary communist dictatorship where the government won't share their medical records to outside vendors for resale as a commodity. - merky1, on 10/20/2009, -2/+2So glad that electronic records will save us billions...
- tugcow80, on 10/20/2009, -1/+0more like Gattaca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca - AmerKaissi, on 10/20/2009, -1/+0Check this related story:
Open Notes: When doctors share the medical record with their patients
http://www.examiner.com/x-23717-San-Antonio-Health ... - BillyBlue96, on 10/20/2009, -3/+1LMAO! Nothing is illegal if the imposter in the White House wants it. The health care bill will REQUIRE that records are stored in a centrally accessible database. You're fooling yourself if you think HIPAA is going to prevent this.
- quirkopatra, on 10/20/2009, -4/+1Eagleton?
- tryshalosh, on 10/19/2009, -10/+5Imagine an employer googles your name and up pops the before picture the doctor took of of your acne problems
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