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The Electronic Controversy Continues
By Anonymous
Medicine may be the last industry to resist the digital revolution as many doctors still use paper medical records.
Framing the Debate
Privacy advocates worry that if the move to eMRs is rushed, patient privacy will suffer. Supporters, on the other hand, argue that health information technologies have advanced to the point that such concerns are vastly overblown. Any loss of privacy will, they insist, be more than offset by efficiency gains. Who is right?
Link: http://www.economist.com/debate/debates/overview/189
Assessment
Will any privacy loss from eMRs be compensated for by commensurate welfare gains from increased medical delivery efficiency?
Conclusion
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Filed under: Information Technology, Practice Management, Voting Polls | Tagged: EHRs, EMRs, HIPAA, medical privacy, PHI |
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Quick-Lube Shop Masters Electronic Record Keeping Six Years Before Medical Industry?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/quicklube-shop-masters-electronic-record-keeping-s,19736/
I just couldn’t resist … from The Onion!
Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA
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Is Someone Looking at Your Health Records?
Ever wonder if someone at the doctor’s office or hospital has been snooping through your health care records? A new federal health care rule could tell you.
http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/31/6757204-is-someone-snooping-your-health-records-new-rule-will-tell-you-who
Craig
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Cha-ching …. $$$$
Darrell
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HIPAA is obsolete
The obsolete 16 year old HIPAA Rule is ineffective and interfering with the Hippocratic Oath.
“Protected To Death: How Medical Privacy Laws Helped Kill 25,000 People” by Tim Cushing was posted yesterday on Techdirt.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120625/19574119473/protected-to-death-how-medical-privacy-laws-helped-kill-25000-people.shtml
Cushing writes: “Putting the government in charge of your privacy has never been a great idea. When HIPAA was enacted, its privacy requirements greatly affected the medical community. Like many regulatory acts, HIPAA both raised costs (additional paperwork and other compliance factors) and lowered quality (negatively affecting retrospective research and curtailing proactive follow up care).”
He says that the true cost of all this additional paperwork, regulation and privacy is now coming to light, and suggests that HIPAA’s privacy requirements may have hampered research efforts that could have prevented an estimated 90,000 unnecessary heart attacks and 25,000 deaths attributed to the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx, which was prescribed for arthritis for over five years before it was withdrawn from the market in 2004. (See Harvard’s INFO/LAW blog article: “Death by HIPAA,” June 22, 2012).
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/
After recently witnessing emotional HIPAA stakeholders defend meaningless signatures on Notice of Privacy Practices forms to the point of censoring providers’ criticism, it looks to me like common sense has a long way to go in the HIT industry before HIPAA can do more good than harm. Nothing good can come from vendors who hide customers’ complaints from others. Just ask the families of the 25,000 Vioxx victims about the need for more transparency in the healthcare IT industry.
D. Kellus Pruitt DDS
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