PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Rush on May 22, 2020, 06:24:06 PM
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I like this woman.
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Is it appropriate for President Trump's Press Sec to reveal that any particular person took a particiular medication?
Maybe I don't understand HIPAA.
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Is it appropriate for President Trump's Press Sec to reveal that any particular person took a particiular medication?
Maybe I don't understand HIPAA.
https://www.hipaajournal.com/who-does-hipaa-apply-to/ (https://www.hipaajournal.com/who-does-hipaa-apply-to/)
“ HIPAA applies to healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses if those organizations transmit health data electronically in connection with transactions for which the Department of Health and Human Services has adopted standards.
Healthcare providers that are typically required to comply with HIPAA Rules includes hospitals, health clinics, nursing homes, doctors, dentists, pharmacies, chiropractors, and psychologists. Health plans include HMO’s, health insurance providers, company health plans, government programs that pay for health care such as Medicaid and Medicare, and veterans’ health programs. ”
It turns out his wife blogged about his use of quinine. Such releases of information are of course outside the purview of HIPAA.
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Is it appropriate for President Trump's Press Sec to reveal that any particular person took a particiular medication?
Maybe I don't understand HIPAA.
While I too believe it is wrong, I think just maybe you do NOT understand HIPPA.
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Thank you for the corrections.
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You're all wrong. While purporting to protect your privacy, HIPAA in reality confirms all the people and ways your information may be accessed, by everyone up to and including Interpol, with the exception of your spouse attempting to pay your doctor bill.
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You're all wrong. While purporting to protect your privacy, HIPAA in reality confirms all the people and ways your information may be accessed, by everyone up to and including Interpol, with the exception of your spouse attempting to pay your doctor bill.
I'll admit I may not be 100% correct, but I think once the bubble of privacy is broken, it is fair game. His wife blogging about it burst that bubble.
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I'll admit I may not be 100% correct, but I think once the bubble of privacy is broken, it is fair game. His wife blogging about it burst that bubble.
And even if it was one of the covered entities, it’s baked into HIPAA that they can share your data without your consent with anyone considered necessary for “public benefit”. It’s extremely broadly written, to cover any and all foreseeable whims of government.
For example, it appears to me that HIPAA already covers “contact tracing” for communicable diseases as something that can be shared. As much as Birx, Pence, Google and Apple, talk about the need to balance privacy with tracking every known covid19 case with cellphone apps, which supposedly anonymize the data, they don’t have to. HIPAA already says you have no privacy if government says “it’s for the public good”.
The biggest effect of HIPAA is to terrify your doctor and local hospital, as it puts them on the hook for multi million dollar fines and even prison time. Hence once more, a law is written that makes life difficult for the little man yet puts out a red carpet for large entities like government and insurance companies.