I do know patients information is not available but to say, 47 years ago Obama was born here would be a wonderous thing for a hospital. That is not giving out patient information to say Obama was in fact born here so Obama has some credibility. When you phone a hospital you most certainly can ask to speak to a certain patient also. Has nothing to do with patient information.
Before identity theft you could look up all kinds of records on people. And if I wanted the people to believe in me the first thing I would do is open my records. Unless I had something to hide or my records were not there in the first place.
Right. So what you're saying is that people called and walked into hospitals, offered to bribe people to commit a federal and a state crime, and got nothing. I guess you think the Ohio government clerk who leaked Joe the Plumber's records didn't do anything wrong, either.
That is not giving out patient information to say Obama was in fact born here...
Uh huh. And I'm sure that would be a valid defense in court when the employee is hauled in for violating the law, or when HR fires you. Yeah.
When you phone a hospital you most certainly can ask to speak to a certain patient also. Has nothing to do with patient information.
You're right. But if you call a hospital and ask if a certain patient is there, they're not going to tell you.
Unless I had something to hide or my records were not there in the first place.
That's you. A lot of other people would be less comfortable with anyone off the street being able to look up all of their medical records.