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| Government Mandated Electronic Medical Records Wide Open To Abuse |
| 2011-05-17 |
| The government's push to computerize medical records to make their jobs easier, has exposed patients' most sensitive information to unauthorized hackers and snoops, in addition to police, insurance, researcher, and government and other, authorized snoops, government investigators warn. As it turns out, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPPA) Act's requirement for electronic records for all patients, making their medical records available to vast numbers of the curious and malevolent, but authorized individuals, is so perforated with security gaps, that just about anyone, domestic or foreign, can access them. The market for illicit health-care information is booming. While the media is mostly concerned about the health information of celebrities, for its potential as lurid gossip, identity thieves, jealous and perverse ex-lovers and stalkers, deviants and spammers, other businessmen and foreign governments can now learn any amount of interesting and incriminating information previously limited to just doctors and their patients. President Barack Obama has set a goal for every American to have wildly insecure electronic health record by 2014. The government is instituting severe penalties to encourage hospitals and doctors offices to adopt electronic medical records. Providers who insist on clinging to paper records, as well as their guns and religion, are being forced out of the medical industry. Because the government craftily decided that doctors and the medical industry had to shoulder the costs of the electronic changeover, about $30,000 or more per doctor, almost one-third of physicians have decided to retire or no longer take on new patients. But the important thing is that someday it may make the job of federal health bureaucrats easier, as well as giving unlimited access to medical records to any number of government agencies, and to force the public to accept national health care, something supported by all Democrats, and secretly by many liberal Republicans. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |