Posted on 01/21/2020 6:28:39 PM PST by davikkm
Digitizing patients’ medical histories, laboratory results and diagnoses has created a booming market in which tech giants are looking to store and crunch data, with potential for groundbreaking discoveries and lucrative products. But recent revelations that Alphabet Inc.’s Google is able to tap personally identifiable medical data about patients, reported by The Wall Street Journal, has raised concerns among lawmakers, patients and doctors about privacy.
Hospitals have granted Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines and Amazon the ability to access identifiable patient information under deals to crunch millions of health records, the latest examples of hospitals’ growing influence in the data economy. We all have either heard the stories or experienced it ourselves. Someone stays overnight in a hospital and when they review thier bill on checkout, they see things like a $45 charge for two Tylenol. Funny thing is, when my oldest brother was born back in the 1950’s, my mom’s entire bill for the labor, delivery and a two-day stay was only $50, for all of it. Somewhere between then and now hospitals and hospital care have become a huge racket, and now, hospitals want even more.
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And, through the miracle of modern Constitutional interpretation, it’s not unconstitutional for them to get your medical information without your or your doctors consent.
So much for HIPAA.
HIPAA is for the little people.
Likely no problem.
These healthcare companies hire IT subcontractors and consultants all the time and the subcontractors have to sign on to the same data privacy, including HIPAA, requirements as the contractor.
Google might be working for a hospital and get access to patient data, but they aren't free to share it with the rest of Google or with anyone the hospital doesn't authorize.
This author either doesn't know what he's talking about or is just trying to get people spun up.
While I admit I can't prove it, my BS meter says medical privacy laws are violated with impunity. Just the opinion of a skeptical old man.
We old farts have great BS detectors. That's two of us who don't believe this bullshit. They violate our privacy any ***damn time they want to.
No infurious intent there.
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There needs to be a choking class action lawsuit about this.
“Hospitals Across The US Make Deal To Sell Your Medical Records To Technology Giants...”
OTOH, HIPAA forbids you from sharing your medical records with your spouse or other doctors without a major ration of bureaucratic bullshit each and every time ... apparently HIPAA can be ignored in all other circumstances ...
HIPAA precludes this.
Sue.
You will prevail...eventually. If you live long enough.
I guarantee you I will not live long enough. I've had two TIA's in the past two weeks. I'm on that decline down-hill. My only hope is that I wake up dead one morning and don't have to deal with this sh*t anymore.
My dying wish is to choke Mark Zuckerberg to death, face to face, watching his pupils explode as I squeeze his pencil neck tighter and tighter .....
I hate that guy.
You said, “I’ve had two TIA’s in the past two weeks.”
I had a stroke, lost about 1/2 the right side of my brain and have had at least three TIAs.
Please don’t give up. As long as we are alive and able to think, we are conservatives and love this country.
You are needed!
Liar
It is illegal to allow access to patient identifiable medical records without written consent. It is a $50,000 fine for each occurrence and if egregious it can be up to $500,000 per occurrence.
And if anyone wants to return to 1950’s medicine you are welcome to it.
Keep in mind that RNs were paid a little more than $1.00 per hour
There are a lot of problems in health care and it’s delivery but this is not the top of the list.
BTW all these issues and high costs all came about with the advent of socialized medicine, Medicare and Medicaid.
I have a great idea. Let’s give Medicare to everyone since it has worked out so good up till now and let’s give more authority to the federal government
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