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A medical privacy breach involving Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., led to the public posting of data for 20,000 emergency room patients, including names and diagnosis codes, on a commercial Web site for nearly a year, the hospital has confirmed.
Although medical security breaches are not uncommon, the Stanford breach was notable for the length of time that the data remained publicly available without detection.
Stanford Hospital Patients' Private Data Was Posted Online
Seeded on Thu Sep 8, 2011 7:21 PM EDT
Article Source: The New York Times
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The spreadsheet included names, diagnosis codes, account numbers, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges for patients seen at Stanford Hospital’s emergency room during a six-month period in 2009
CoH please
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#1 - Thu Sep 8, 2011 7:21 PM EDTI'm sorry rescue, but I just want to say a few things. This Patriot Act, and all this demand to put your Social Security number and information in every bodies computer to track what they are doing and buying is way over the limit, and total disregard to privacy protection.
The blatant demand for your residential address to be on your ID, rather than a mailing address is outrages. Especially in a woman's position. If some idiot steals a woman's wallet or purse, she is so vulnerable. This guy has her keys, her address, here credit cards, her ID. It's outrages.
This idiot just has to go to her house since he has her address on her ID, and wait. even if no one steals it, and she just looses it, and some idiot finds it. It has a picture of her, so he can see how pretty she is, and if this person is a pervert, stalking, pedophile, low life @ss. He can make her life hell.
I went to Radio Shack 2 weeks ago with my wife, and tried to buy 2 new cel phones for me and her. Them idiots told me that they couldn't sell me them if I didn't give them my name, address and home phone. The 2 phones were almost 4 hundred dollars. I told them to kiss my @ss, I wasn't giving them my information to put in their computer, I wasn't buying cel phone service from them, I was only buying the celphones to my Sim card of the carrier I was doing business with already.
My carrier is the only one that needs my information, and they already have it. There was no reason, since I was not doing business with Radio Shack for cel service, for them to have any of my information on their computer, and it was unacceptable to gain it, and I walked out with finger extended.
I went to best buy, paid the same amount for the phones, and had to give them nothing but the money to pay for it. Radio Shack and there stupid policy, lost them almost 4 hundred dollars. :)
Thanks for letting me rant. Oh, and by the way. Judges and Police officers don't have to put their residential address on their ID.
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#2 - Thu Sep 8, 2011 11:40 PM EDTPOliticly,
No problem, rant away, because it's all part of the bigger picture. My doctors are part of a prestigious hospital system. I had such frustrations before, having the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing, without signing continous medical release forms and then having them not sent.
I'm very explicit about my medical history as I was a medical professional, and yet every single medical history report by different specialists were not only different but in error.
Now my physicians communicate with each other on line. If I have my blood work done at my internist's office my cardiologist has the report immediately. If I have a CAT scan for a herniated disc all of my physicians can instantaneously pull up the report.
Having done medical research and trying to obtain medical records on patients its an absolutely joke. I would look at the records, and say "is this for this patient?" "Why does the physician's record show that there's no surgeries when I'm looking at a surgical scar that goes half way across the abdomen ?
There are downsides and benefits both ways....I'm still pondering
Do I have my medical records on line...I do. I can change the list every time my medication list is changed, so if, God forbid, I was in an accident, etc. where I couldn't give the information needed, it's accessible by someone else.
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#3 - Fri Sep 9, 2011 12:57 AM EDTI understand totally. In a sense of medical records, it is both understandable and should be a wanted requirement in the implementation of, as long as that grouping does not and can not lead to a disqualification of medical care eligibility, medical insurance eligibility, or life insurance eligibility.
That would be my big worry of the group access to full medical records, and who is entitled to view or access them records and forward them to unwanted or prejudicial sources.
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I totally agree with you. That's one of the reasons I believe we need to get health care out the hands of the insurance companies. You may have no idea how many times you sign forms that allow access to medical records or a standard release allowing records to be released to other agencies.
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#4 - Fri Sep 9, 2011 7:31 AM EDTExactly, and the reason they make you sign all those forms is to release liability from, and protect them. Not you. Protecting the peoples/consumers interests isn't there any more when it comes to doing business or personal transaction in this Country. It's to protect the Government and corporations interests now.
That's what the whole fight entails in this Country, it's a fight between Government and Corporations for power, excluding it's people in decisions. It's one of the reasons I am so anti big Government. They are the ones that make the Laws, and regulate. The problem is they regulate where they shouldn't, and don't regulate where they should for the people. And the people have no say. It doesn't even come before the people.
We need to go back to the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists days, and make a constitution and bill of rights that is not compromised by giving/allowing Government so much power over the people it Governs.
This isn't Freedom, it's Government control. It's like we need to go backwards to move forward again. Or stay stuck. There is no reason for Government to even be in a position that they have more say as to where tax dollars are spent than the people that are paying the tax in the first place. This is the Peoples Country, not the Governments, not the Corporations, not the Lobbyists, not the Activists or Special Interest Groups. The Peoples. And we have forgotten that.
700 billion dollar bail outs, 50 billion to Iraq for rebuilding, billions to other Countries for there defense, Free Trade Agreements, the protection and laws regarding our borders, Raising the Debt Ceiling of our Nation. The Government doesn't own our money or our services.
The people have no part what so ever in the decisions being made regarding matters of our Country. And that is wrong, and needs to be changed. Even if we have to go back to 1800, and do it again. If not, we stay stuck in the same lifestyle, a fight between Government and Corporations for power, and screw the People.
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