@dpeelmd My previous article was directed toward your questionnaire, which I linked to, which advised people not to use any computerized anything if they wanted to retain any degree of privacy in their medical records.
That standard is nonsense. It's Luddite. The problem is too many people have an incentive to peek. Employers and insurers benefit financially from looking at your private medical records.
But then you've always opposed health reform, too.
So in some ways your stands appear contradictory to me. It's nothing personal.
I believe we can secure records better than we do. I think we can also reduce and even eliminate the incentive of employers and insurers to peek.
What's left are a relatively small number of crimes against which criminal laws can be enforced, because the numbers aren't so daunting.
The problem you've identified in your work appears to be, primarily, an American problem. Have you not noticed?
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