When there is a compelling public health reason, HIPPA allows for
exceptions. Typhoid, TB, Diptheria, Syphillis are still reportable
diseases. But we live in an era where information technology (like EMR)
can be misused. Would you feel the same way if you were fired from your
job because your employer found out that you were diabetic? After all,
diabetics have more health problems and therefore more absenteeism.
Mike Schrom
Ruben Safir wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 18:54, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
Well, at the rate things are going, you may get your wish. I suspect patients
will be loathe to discuss anything with their health care provider if things
go the way you would like.
So be it. That is a completely misplaced loyalty that your talking
about. Typhoid Mary killed a dozen people before she was wrestled to
the ground and removed from the public.
Thousands of young girls at Woodhall hospital gave birth to HIV babies.
Young women, in their teens and twenties, in tears because their babies
were HIV+, not even realizing that this meant that THEY where HIV+, and
in almost EVERY CASE, infected by lovers and men that the authorities
KNEW were HIV+
All those women and babies died. They died because of a bunch fanatics
who talk about "Fighting AIDS" but who refuse to the authorities to do
what was necessary to actually save people from spreading it because GOD
FORBID someone will find out they are shooting dope or a homosexual.
.
Fighting disease is a public concern every day. This is especially true
of infective disease, but not limited to it.
Ruben
On Sunday 18 December 2005 06:09 pm, Ruben Safir wrote:
I Hate HIPPA. Its a stupid law and I do not agree with the basic
premise that an individuals health status is a private matter.
As a medical fact, its quite the opposite.
In fact, the AIDS activists have blood on their hands preventing the
notification of family members and sex partners of their HIV status and
preventing social workers too tract and tract that disease such as they
would Gonorrhea . And they've deepened the spread of AIDS.
All matters of health are immediate public issues and their should be no
right to keep your health records private.
Ruben
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 00:36, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
No, in my opinion, you did NOT authorize it and I hope the heck the labs
fight this. I suspect that the Department of Health is using something
from the wording in the law that governs it to perpetuate this outrage.
The last thing I read was patients could opt out, and it ought to be that
they can opt in, not out. The default should be protection, not invasion,
of privacy. I find this incredibly out of line and I sure hope the AMA,
etc., etc, fight it tooth and nail.
On Saturday 17 December 2005 10:57 pm, steven mcphelan wrote:
Isn't this a violation of HIPAA? When did the labs get the patient's
written approval to send their test results to a metro database unless all
patient specific identifiers where removed prior to sending that data to
the Health Dept. In that case it would not be a HIPAA violation.
I guess I should read the waiver we all sign at the doctor's office where
the specimen may be collected. Did we sign a HIPAA waiver that effective
grants "pass through"? That is since I authorized the doctor to pass
medical data back and forth between the lab, did I also authorize the lab
to also do so without any further written approval from me?
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