John Rossomando
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According to Kansas GOP Congressman Tim Heulskamp, Big Brother could be peering into your health records and finding out everything about you – including things you would rather keep private.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, he says, wants a national database where every American’s health records could be warehoused, for states to have their own databases, and for federal bureaucrats to have access to these records.
But this sets off the specter of political mischief using your most sensitive personal information. We’ve seen things like this done with FBI records and all sorts of documents in the past, so what’s to say this will not happen in the future?
“You had all of these Democrats all upset with the Patriot Act over having somebody go over somebody’s library card,” Huelskamp says. “But here you would have it that the federal government would have access to everybody’s private health care records, and consistency is not the forte of the left and of the Democrats in general.”
The idea of the federal government having cavalier access to medical records is a scary proposition because how can we rely on the government to use them responsibly?
We can’t.
I’m sure that even some liberals would have a problem with faceless, nameless bureaucrats sifting through their medical records.
This is why passing Heulskamp’s bill that would force HHS to keep its nose out our health records is so important by defunding the database.
privacy has always been a concern with emr systems but there are many of them with such extreme privacy techniques that really no one can get in to see your personal information without expressed approval.
Posted by: Electronic Medical Records | October 30, 2011 at 09:40 AM