[MarchonDC09122009]

Hipaa is a joke and offers little assurance that personal health data is not indiscriminately shared.
I urge Everyone here to look at how 8000+ healthcare entities share your medical information without guarantee of anonymizing your medical record data.

SEE: thedatamap.org

Congress refuses to address this privacy issue because data brokers, insurance, and medical entities make Billions off of your data.
Gov’t likes the easy access, too.

[Shethink13]

Hipaa is a joke and offers little assurance that personal health data is not indiscriminately shared. I urge Everyone here to look at how 8000+ healthcare entities share your medical information without guarantee of anonymizing your medical record data.

You are so right! The only people HIPAA prevents from easily acquiring medical records is the patient him/herself.

I work in a hospital lab and I am not allowed to perform or view the results of any of my own lab tests or my family members' without going to medical records or signing up for electronic medical records through your providers office, which is often burdensome and more difficult for older persons who are not computer savvy.

[TianaHighrider]

As someone in healthcare data-mining, I concur 100% with your post.