This is what happens when you make medical records electronic.
Easily done with a thumb drive.
And yes, violates HIPAA.
makes you wonder what OTHER unethical and illegal things facebook was up to...
It isn’t just Facebook.
My email and other sites show ads for things I’ve looked at in Internet searches... for products I’ve purchased recently... for hotels or rental cars in places where I am soon flying to... for single men my age...
Um, okay, I don’t know about the last. I’m married, so I think it’s showing those ads to the wrong person. But many of the other ads have me suspicious.
Facebook suggested that I friend a woman who was my intern. The thing is, she and I had nothing in common other than that she was my intern, and I did not have Facebook at the time she worked for me.
Linked In is also suspicious. I have a friend that I occasionally email from my work address. So why does she show up as a potential colleague on Linked In, when it is linked to my home address?
And so on. It’s sobering to consider just how much of our personal information is out there, largely through these social media companies.
My exact complaint when Obamacare required ALL Drs to bring their files online. ‘Oh, but you want all your doctors to access all your medical history, don’t you? You wouldn’t want any doctor to prescribe a medication that might conflict with another medication you are taking, would you?’. And naive people bought into it. I HATE what Obamacare has done to our privacy and our (now) lack of good healthcare. And the questions they are now required to ask are so invasive of our privacy......it was all to increase the vulnerability of people who could then be compromised. While oworking in medical labs, we were requires to have a plain white sheet of paper to cover over any/all reports on our desks, just in case anyone walked by and might be able to read what was on a patient report. Now everyone’s history is readily available to all computer savvy people.
“This is what happens when you make medical records electronic.”
BINGO!!
The lobbyist that pushed for The HITECH Act (EMRs) worked for the data mining people. (Facebook?)
I’m beginning to think HIPPA is not applied equally.