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Your medical records are somehow safe? It's only a matter of time before the govt mandated exchanges go "oops" in a similar way
by magoon 13y ago
Your medical records are somehow safe? It's only a matter of time before the govt mandated exchanges go "oops" in a similar way
- ceejayoz 13y agoMy understanding of the exchanges is they're just a way to buy health insurance. They're not storing your medical records in the exchanges.
- lettergram 13y agoComing from a medical billing service which deals with this, yes they will keep your records as of 2014 I believe.
- adolph 13y agoExchanges may also refer to Health Information Exchanges (HIE). http://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/health-information-exchange http://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/health-infor...
- vertex-four 13y agoAnd yet somehow, in general, national health services with highly integrated medical data storage systems across Europe don't seem to lose data as often as you'd think.
- groby_b 13y agoAs opposed to private providers, who are oh-so-safe? For breaches of private providers so far, see http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachnotificationrule/breachtool.html http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachno... A quick sum of all the incidents in there adds up to 22 million health care records lost so far. It's hard to imagine the government could do much worse. In case you don't feel like importing the CSV file somewhere, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkJeZCqH2PsHdDZoSVJZdzR0ZmV6cm9Ndy1ON1VlRGc&usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkJeZCqH2PsHdDZ... (Not modified except for column width and a final tally)