Re: O.T. Privacy of Electronic Medical Records

[Guest guest]

one word: HACKERS!!!!!!! simple as that!

" government " should not be in the business of trying to protect some one's

personal medical records when they can't protect their own butts!!!

I do not want my personal medical records online, period! It's a very dangerous

place for them to be if you want to keep them private!!!

When are people going to wake up to the truth about our government and how

corrupt it is?! This is just one more way for the government to " track " people!!

Dana

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> For those on this board who have expressed fear that that electronic medical

records would destroy their privacy, here is an excerpt from the current issue

of the New England Journal of Medicine. A link to the entire article is at the

end of the excerpt.

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> " The stimulus act also incorporates other rule changes that privacy advocates

and some lawmakers had been seeking for years. For example, it allows patients

to request an " audit trail " showing all electronic disclosures of their health

information and mandates that they be notified about any unauthorized disclosure

or use. It extends protections to personally controlled electronic health data

(such as those stored by Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and other online

data repositories), as well as to companies that do work on behalf of health

care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses (the entities

covered under HIPAA). When individually identifiable health information is

transmitted or physically transported, such as on a laptop computer, outside a

health care entity, it must be encrypted or otherwise rendered indecipherable to

unauthorized individuals. The act also includes limits on the sale of an

individual patient's health

> information or its unauthorized use in marketing or fund-raising, increases

penalties for violations, and strengthens enforcement and oversight. "

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> http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/360/11/1057.pdf

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[Guest guest]

I'll bet they've been taking DNS from any blood samples too.

Barth

www.presenting.net/sbs/sbs.html

SUBMIT YOUR DOCTOR: www.presenting.net/sbs/molddoctors.html

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g> one word: HACKERS!!!!!!! simple as that!

g> " government " should not be in the business of trying to protect some one's

personal medical records when they can't protect their own!!!

g> I do not want my personal medical records online, period! It's a very

dangerous place for them to be if you want to keep them private!!!

g> When are people going to wake up to the truth about our government and how

corrupt it is?! This is just one more way for the government to " track " people!!

g> Dana

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>> For those on this board who have expressed fear that that electronic medical

records would destroy their privacy, here is an excerpt from the current issue

of the New England Journal of Medicine.

>> A link to the entire article is at the end of the excerpt.

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