Posted on 08/21/2011 7:14:34 PM PDT by decimon
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see.
There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors' notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking detail, a trucker's crushed fingers, a maintenance worker's broken ribs and one man's bout with sexual dysfunction.
At a time of mounting computer hacking threats, the incident offers an alarming glimpse at privacy risks as the nation moves steadily into an era in which every American's sensitive medical information will be digitized.
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Obviously we need a new law since the existing ones aren’t working. The Govt is the only one that can fix this.
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“Cloud” bump.
Unless of course it's irredeemably incapable of doing so and/or it decides the information is public record.
I agree that there are loss of privacy problems with online health records, but I think the gains in quality of health care outweigh the problems.
Not to mention the fat fingered doctor asked to key in their own data.
My doctor was literally two fingering the keyboard. I went to another doctor...when he was reading the chart, he got a diagnosis of something for a part of the body that is impossible.
Gee wiz! Obama is a genus, we are going to save so much money
Really? What gains in quality of health care? I haven't noticed any since the advent of digitized medical records. The quality of care seemed just fine when it was all on paper and nothing has improved noticeably since things went digital. What did you have in mind?
You can’t be series!!! Is your name Newt or Hillary?
Thanks decimon.
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