I assume that while we still have HIPAA, that the City of New York meets all HIPAA requirements and that all the appropriate paper work has been taken care of. Otherwise, would participating labs be liable for fines?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Lieman Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] A Pill, a Scalpel, a Database On 2/16/06, Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The health department, as far as I'm concerned, can ask for any > information it wants. Unless your showing me that this information is > being miss used, or used legally, I'm ABSOLUTELY not interested. > > In fact, they need to flush HIPPA which is just stupid. > > Ruben Privacy v. Responsibility. Geez, what a hot button topic. Let me confine my comments to this: If we return responsibility for ensuring the privacy of medical records to the individual, how would you handle a patient who hands you a "Personal Copyright and License" which ONLY permits YOU to use and store the information needed for treatment but not to disclose it without written permission? ------------------------------------------------------- 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://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- 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://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
