NYC Department of Health is asking to mandate that all of the city's labs report A1C Hemoglobin values into a patient registry of Diabetics in New York.
This is one of the things that concerns me about all of this enthusiasm for a Health Data Repositories. You may be told your information is private, but then once it is stored like this, you can loose control of it for the "public good". This article does not suggest this is data they want is scrubbed of personal identifiers. This is far too "Big Brother" for me, and this doesn't even involve a HDR yet. I feel things are a little safer if the nationwide network were a database to where patient information might be found if the patient wants it to be found. http://govhealthit.com/article89548-07-13-05-Web -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
