-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Politech] Have Feds' HIPAA health privacy rules helped? [priv] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:04:58 -0400 From: Stephen Cobb <editor@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> References: <407CD237.3020003@private> Declan Sadly, I must second Jim's opinion. Despite a lot of hard work by well-intentioned people in hospitals and doctors' offices, medical privacy is getting worse, not better. HIPAA's law enforcement loophole alone has emboldened politicians seeking to peer into our private lives. For example, the Florida legislature is about to authorize, at the urging of Governor Bush, a central database to track prescription medications taken by Floridians. The inevitable effect will be to make it even harder than it already is for people suffering severe pain and other problems to get adequate treatment. Stephen Cobb Author: Privacy for Business "Throw down the Xanax and come out with your hands up." -- From an episode of "Cops" filmed in Florida, 2005 At 4/14/2004 01:55 AM, you wrote: >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: HIPAA Privacy One Year Later: Prognosis . . . Negative! >Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:53:48 -0400 >From: Jim Harper - Privacilla.org <jim.harper@private> > >"If anything, health privacy has receded in the past year," said Jim Harper, >Editor of Privacilla.org. "Federal regulators stepped into a bad situation >and made it worse. Consumers today have even fewer privacy-protecting >options and far less confidence in the privacy of their health information >and health decisions." _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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