Privacy IS important! I don't want people to know my police record; don't want people to know if I was being trated for syphlis and don't want people to know my banking password. but in each of those cases there is a tangible, in most cases there is no tangible loss if people find out information about me. In many cases ther is no way to keep things private! If you walk out of a Doctor's office with a cast on you arm, people are going to KNOW, you have a fracture - wether the doctor lets people know or not. If you are acting like a bipolar, people do not need to read your medical record. If you drnk and drive, people are going to know you are a drunk.
There is only one P in HIPAA and it does not stand for 'Privacy'. Yet all that is done in name of HIPAA is litigation in the name of privacy. Privacy is important but when it cmaes in the way of people's safety and the extent to which they can be served by health care profassionals and national security, we need to think again. Agree?
2006-06-27
04:25:57
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