Begin forwarded message:
From: "David P. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 26, 2006 10:18:55 AM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IP] more on As electronic medical records legislation
advances, breaches draw scrutiny
My wife, who manages a private practice covered by HIPAA, feels that
complying with HIPAA is not terribly difficult, and the only issue is
that *insurance company employees* are given far too much access to
patient's private data, which in her case is extensive, including
very personal and sensitive facts as a matter of routine (she sees
people with emotional problems).
The cited "doctors" who walk away muttering about the burden of HIPAA
are probably less doctors than business operators or investors in
managed care companies, who have conflicts with their loyalty to
patient privacy. (It is certainly that class of doctors who can
afford high-priced lawyers and lobbyists to argue their case).
HIPAA is, if anything, too weak, with lots of loopholes and
exceptions, beyond the core issues that support public health gains
and medical research.
David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: "M. Sean Fosmire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 26, 2006 6:46:39 AM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IP] As electronic medical records legislation
advances, breaches draw scrutiny
So far, none of the reports on this new bill have mentioned that
there was a law passed in 1996 that supposedly addressed this
issue, and that the Department of Health and Human Services enacted
a massive set of new regulations in 2000, effective in 2003, all to
"safeguard patient privacy". Ask any doctor what HIPAA means to his
practice. Most likely, he will shake his head and walk away muttering.
In an article that I published in my law firm's newsletter in May
2003, I observed:
As an expression of the irony that seems to permeate Federal law,
the original goal of "simplifying the administration of health
insurance" was accomplished by the adoption of the most massive and
confusing set of regulations seen in health care in the last ten
years – and that is saying quite a lot.
M. Sean Fosmire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Garan Lucow Miller, P.C.
Marquette, Michigan
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On 7/25/06, David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subject: As
electronic medical records legislation advances, breaches
draw scrutiny
As the House of Representatives hammers out details about what federal
electronic medical records privacy policy (if any) should look like,
and whether it should trump stronger state laws,
( http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=5227 ). . .
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