Health Care Privacy and the Surveillance State: The Struggle for Balance
by Fred Fortin
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WHCB: “Health Care Privacy and the Surveillance State: The Struggle for Balance” « ajfortin.com wrote @ January 1st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
[…] my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog. Posted in Globalization, Healthcare, WorldHealthCareBlog. […]
Weight Gain and Menopause wrote @ January 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 am
I agree with your opinion of Health care privacy that each individual should have privacy about there health issues and the government should help the people and support Health Care Privacy and the Surveillance .
Dr Coles wrote @ January 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Electronic Records Don’t Improve Health Care says a report from HHS http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ Shifting to Electronic Medical Records makes since, to make medicine more efficient thereby reducing administrative costs, in other words a business decision. If government mandates it, then it is a forerunner requirement to prepare for government take over of health care, Socialized/universal healthcare. http://www.InteliOrg.com/ The only thing that is broken in health care is the cost of health care and no one is addressing this problem. The government caused the problem with health care cost crises in America by over socializing (with mandates) medicine to the extent it is not completive.
Steve Lilienthal wrote @ January 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Americans should be aware of how poorly protected their medical information is by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. (HIPAA). Many would be surprised to learn that HIPAA is really a regulation that sanctions disclosure of medical information to many vendors, including data mining firms. Now privacy stands to be undermined even more if the Congress passes legislation to establish an Electronic Health Information Network without instilling privacy protections and principles as part of the legislation. What can you do? Arm yourself with knowledge. Visit the Patient Privacy Rights website at http://www.patientprivacyrights.org.
BambisMusings - Musings from a little deer? » Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? wrote @ January 31st, 2008 at 8:24 am
[…] Health Care Privacy and the Surveillance State: The Struggle for Balance (WOrldHealthCareBlog.org - … Privacy International has come out with their international privacy rankings and determinations of the world’ leading surveillance societies. The 2007 rankings indicate “an overall worsening of privacy protection across the world, reflecting an increase in surveillance and a declining performance of privacy safeguards.” One category the report is the surveillance of “medical and financial movement” in which countries like the U.S. and the U.K. (and others) are deemed countries with the worst records providing “weak protections of financial and medical privacy.” […]
kevin Jones wrote @ February 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I agree that th potential benefit of these personel medical record systems out weigh the privacy risk, and I am sure more laws will be passed. But for my money I would never trust Microsoft with this given tis track record with windows and Google has stumbled around now trying to team up with a big burecratic health system. For my money I sticking to the smaller companies like http://www.medicalrecords247.com to have the most relevant and easy to use system.
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