My medical exemption was declined, as well. I also filed a religious one that was accepted. Their reason for the medical denial was that they had two of their doctors look at it and it was determined not to be anything the CDC says is an issue. I did ask the doc who gave it to me to be vague because my past vax injuries would just make them think I was nuts.
Wow. That is wild. I had hired a lawyer when I heard the mandate rumors and he said they can ask and demand anything they want. If you refuse, then it is subordination. It's amazing. I work for a healthcare company and have been very careful to make sure my doctors and labwork are not sent into any of the EHRs in my company. I don't trust HR, nor my coworkers not to snoop. Of course there are audits, but there has to be complaints first and how would I know to complain without violating the law myself.
Now I'm in their system without my express permission. It's amazing what companies can do to us now. Oh and Oracle just bought Cerner. I wonder what kind of data they are going to gather with that purchase.
I work in healthcare. They can demand my info all they want. I hide and am as vague as possible. It sucks. HIPAA only covers what is legal once they have your medical info, not whether they can ask. For example, they can't call a doc and ask for my records because he is following HIPAA. But if they are given records with permission, now they have to protect them from others askong/hacking, etc. It isn't about really protecting us. It's just a side effect that we get a teensy bit of privacy from a doc not selling the data or putting it on facebook.
My medical exemption was declined, as well. I also filed a religious one that was accepted. Their reason for the medical denial was that they had two of their doctors look at it and it was determined not to be anything the CDC says is an issue. I did ask the doc who gave it to me to be vague because my past vax injuries would just make them think I was nuts.
Wow. That is wild. I had hired a lawyer when I heard the mandate rumors and he said they can ask and demand anything they want. If you refuse, then it is subordination. It's amazing. I work for a healthcare company and have been very careful to make sure my doctors and labwork are not sent into any of the EHRs in my company. I don't trust HR, nor my coworkers not to snoop. Of course there are audits, but there has to be complaints first and how would I know to complain without violating the law myself.
Now I'm in their system without my express permission. It's amazing what companies can do to us now. Oh and Oracle just bought Cerner. I wonder what kind of data they are going to gather with that purchase.
I work in healthcare. They can demand my info all they want. I hide and am as vague as possible. It sucks. HIPAA only covers what is legal once they have your medical info, not whether they can ask. For example, they can't call a doc and ask for my records because he is following HIPAA. But if they are given records with permission, now they have to protect them from others askong/hacking, etc. It isn't about really protecting us. It's just a side effect that we get a teensy bit of privacy from a doc not selling the data or putting it on facebook.