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? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
