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Do you disagree? Are you saying that the govt does NOT take health data? Why are you resorting to name calling when what I am saying is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE?
I think she's trying to tell you they CAN take aggregate information when collecting health data, but not personally identifiable information.
So they know that ten patients out of a hundred seen in the ER last month smoke, but they don't know the names of those hundred people or which ten smoke, or any other identifying info. Do you consider that an invasion of your privacy?
I think she's trying to tell you they CAN take aggregate information when collecting health data, but not personally identifiable information.
So they know that ten patients out of a hundred seen in the ER last month smoke, but they don't know the names of those hundred people or which ten smoke, or any other identifying info. Do you consider that an invasion of your privacy?
I do.
The govt is using my personal information. That's an invasion of privacy.
My wife got a script for 2 1mg tabs of Ativan for a series of scans. Every time she saw a new provider it was “so you take Ativan”? Maybe it sounds silly to some, but she felt uncomfortable. Personally, I don’t care, but some do.
It would bother me. I once took a drug and no longer do and I've asked to have it removed since I haven't taken it in years. It remains in the record, apparently, since I get asked about it now and then.
Partly. Though it does a good job of forcing healthcare providers to jump through hoops to prevent family members, friends, potentially interested parties who aren't assigned surrogates for the patient from getting access to his/her health care information.
I don't know how any of those people would ever get info from a doctor's office. Unless office staff is just really clueless and telling anybody that calls whatever they want to know.
That won't change anything unless he finds a shady pharmacist, and who really wants to do that?
In 2005, Congress passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act to address the criminal diversion of PSE to the illegal production of meth. This federal law requires:
PSE-containing OTC medicines to be secured and sold from behind a sales counter;
Daily purchase limits of 3.6 grams (approximately a 15-day supply) per day and 9 grams per 30 days; and Purchasers must present government–issued identification and sign a logbook accessible by law enforcement. In a lot of places the 'logbook' is electronic so you might not realize you're 'signing' it, but if you buy PSE products you're getting carded one way or another.
is it a federal data base or a federal law? maybe the pharmacist was confused.
Do you disagree? Are you saying that the govt does NOT take health data? Why are you resorting to name calling when what I am saying is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE?
They can request data but it is not personally identifiable information. They can ask how many patients came in with a snake bite or chest pain and what was done for them. Or they can ask how many doses of opioids were prescribed but they do not get names. All PHI is stripped prior to sending data and failure to do so is a major hipaa violation and punishable under law.
I certainly agree that there are people out there who scam the system, but I'm not one of them. This system assumes everyone is "guilty before being proven innocent."
I think patients should, at the very least in a situation like this, be informed by BOTH the healthcare system and the private chain pharmacies that all Rx are viewable by a particular healthcare system, including those Rx not prescribed by them.
I understand that there are scammers out there, and drug addicts, etc, but some of us simply want to protect our own privacy and control access to our own medical information.
Do you think they are going into your records in their spare time and checking anything new you have been RXed?
I am sure you signed a disclaimer that allowed this to happen—in the fine print
It could be new govt regulation that requires it
Blame the pharmacy as much as the dr...
The pharmacy isn’t protecting your RX privacy...
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