amigo_boy
join:2005-07-22
Tempe, AZ
 ·Cox HSI
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Re: Planned Google medical records svc raises privacy concerns
said by TKJunkMail  : And until court cases determine how easy or hard it is to get that info subpoenaed, there are concerns there as well. I think medical records are already highly regulated, mostly due to the HIPAA law that took effect 7-8 years ago. It was intended to standardize forms used by providers and insurers, and encourage electronic processing. Due to concerns over how electronic processing might be abused, privacy requirements were added to the law.
Without knowing what Google is planning to do, it may not be too much different than what WebMD began doing after HIPAA. They became a service provider of automated processing.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| The privacy laws, there are plenty of exceptions, all your insurance companies, their administrator contractors, networks operators (PPO networks, etc), and processing contractors have 100% access to your records. Then drug makers have access to your records to see if you became sick, research firms (commercial and educational) get anonymized access to your records. All the govt agencies (DEA/FDA) get to look at your records to see if you've getting too much Vicodin. Any prosecutor can pull your records to have a wichhunt to find something negative to tell a jury, even if the case isn't about your medical care.
The only privacy you have is I can't pay $25 and get your records online. |
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