Why are Hospital information technology systems connected to the internet in the first place? We are often told how important patient privacy is , privacy of medical records and yet these sorts of things are available on the internet.
Am I missing something? How can hackers break into a hospital patient system Unless somehow that system is connected to the internet?
Why are Hospital information technology systems connected to the internet in the first place? We are often told how important patient privacy is , privacy of medical records and yet these sorts of things are available on the internet.
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there is a “back door” for the government to get your information when it wants. HIPAA doesn’t apply to the govt.
Someplace I have a schematic of who has access to health info.
Apparently the only people who don’t are your next of kin and the next provider you are seeing who needs it.
People mistakenly believe HIPAA is about patient privacy. It’s true that there is a relatively minor section of the law that deals with that, and it usually gets enforced rigorously. But the vast majority of the law is actually about how to share medical information electronically between all the entities that need it, such as insurers, Medicare and Medicaid, billing companies,electronic medical record vendors, and other third party business associates.
There really is no way to do medicine these days without an electronic medical record system. And they have to be connected to the internet for many reasons, including all the things I mentioned in the previous paragraph, but also because of the distributed nature of how medical care is delivered, the need for a patient’s medical information to be accessible in different locations by multiple care providers, technical support, the location of the data center, and many other reasons.
The days of your medical record being a physical folder stored in the bowels of the hospital are long gone, only to return after the EMP, and then only until society recovers enough to do it again.
A great question. Oftentimes patients (like myself) are seen by medical professionals from different health systems. In recent years, I have been a patient across four different health systems. It’s easier for doctors to communicate with each other concerning one patient by accessing the internet. Sharing test results, for instance.
“We are often told how important patient privacy is , privacy of medical records and yet these sorts of things are available on the internet.”
You caught them lying—good job.
It is like Amazon claiming Alexa is not monitoring conversation but can miraculously hear the word “Alexa”.
Helloooooo......
Lol.