Good!
So probably when you really mess-up somebody's diagnose and have to pay several
million of dollars in a law suit, your "higher echelons" will realize how
stupid is the idea.Besides if you give a randomized number to a specimen and
later use a code to "decipher" the randomized number, where is the "anonymity"
advantage? Is it not the same as having a sequential number without the
patient's name, and the list of cases with patient's names and their sequential
numbers?
I really cannot comprehend the rationale and I am also sure that whomever came
up with this "brilliant" idea makes much more money that you and never has
worked in a pathology lab.
I pity your position of having to accept a stupid procedure and being unable to
hold your ground because of fear of losing your job.It is infuriating realize
how stupid people "claim the ladder of power"
René
On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 4:10 PM, "Wheelock, Timothy R. via Histonet"
<histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone:
Thank you for all your responses and thoughts on this issue.
I should clarify that this new system may actually not be coming from the NIH
itself, but perhaps from departments in one of our parent organizations. We
have no written sources for this sort of approach. They may be understandably
concerned about separating personal identifying information from
clinical/pathological diagnostic information, so as to ensure confidentiality,
especially in this day and age of increasingly vulnerable personal information.
Assigning a randomized anonymizing number tracking system may help in this
regard. I have been assured that a "code", that is a way of matching the
anonymizing number to a sequential system would be in place. So there would
always be a way of "getting our bearings" at any point. My concern was mistakes
and mixing up of cases. I still would prefer a sequential system, but at this
point, we don't really have an option. Plus, maybe it is just that I am used
to a sequential system. I think it may be difficult to get use to at first, but
if we take it carefully, and everyone cross-checks each other, it should be
do-able. We shall see. Thanks again.
Tim
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