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.
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.
It certainly doesn't feel like we have any privacy or rights anymore and it's just getting worse. There are loopholes and lawyers for everything.