Sat, 02/07/2009 - 11:24am — DCblogger
Insurers worried HIPAA expansion could hurt HIT adoption
Further, Ignani said that requiring covered entities to account for all disclosures of personal health information would discourage use of electronic health records systems because of the intense labor required to document all disclosures of electronic data.
AHIP Concerned with Privacy Provisions
AHIP's concerns rest with provisions that would further restrict use of patient data for payment, treatment and operational functions.
Somehow we need to make clear that lack of patient privacy will discourage people from seeking treatment and constitutes a public health threat.
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This is too easy
1. We'll pay for it by firing all the parasites and taking the money they siphoned off and putting it to good use, and
2. Create jobs for the health workers processing the records!
Just too easy.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
DCB, you snipped the most important part.
Marketing restrictions. Sounds like I'm not the only one, then.
I've told this story before here, but I got a phone call about my non-generic 'scrip from my so-called insurance provider. I thought it was about fraud prevention, so I went along. (Hey, I'm a good citizen, but then, I'm not a Republican.) It turned out to be a sales call: they wanted to tell me about the exciting opportunity of savings to be had by switching to generic. I terminated the call and only found out later from my SO that they kept relentlessly calling during the day while I was at work.
I had to finally call them back and inform them that my housemates who had no business knowing what was going on with me were getting a touch freaked out by relentless calls from my prescription provider, looking for me, and it had to stop.
Well, these people are going to get everything they want from Obama, so why scream into the wind anymore?
[Edit: Point being, of course, that they want to outsource all that expensive telemarketing, but in order to do that, they'd have to turn over all that Protected Health Information (PHI) which they currently have to keep in house to some random phone bank run by a bunch of monkeys. So, whatever.]
Log files are HARD. Let's go shopping!
Do they honestly expect to have no scrutiny at all of accesses?