If I can securely do my banking and brokerage online, my digitized medical records can be secure too. Health-care apologists don’t like digitization because by making medical records easier to transfer, it threatens their monopoly.
And id a thief gets our digital medical file, they also get our Social Security number as well.
HIPAA is the prototype bureaucratic boondoggle. 420 breaches in 19 million is 0.0000221%. How much real damage was done by those breaches? It’s out of control bureaucracy that grows every year. More government union jobs created to make more rules it can enforce so they can create more government jobs to enforce them. More and more money diverted from actual health care to pay pencil-pushers for useless crap. How big a problem was all of this 15 years ago before HIPAA? It wasn’t a problem. It’s a government bogeyman that an “expert” from an identity security firm in this article (looking to cash in ) tells us is a huge problem. I could go on.
I can give you all another headache:
Years ago, I worked for a major recording studio/record company.
At that time, they wanted to go into the cd’s.
They could not get long term holding performance out of the plastic units.
Within 5 years, they would start to break down & lose bytes of info, often very much sooner.
I don’t know what the shelf life of today’s CD’s and other electronic storage is, but I won’t depend upon it for anything I care about.
I have pictures of my grandfather- who died in 1927 or so on paper in plain old black and white & I don’t intend to ever change that. I have lots of other photos from my life.
I actually know a person who took about the equivalent of 4 ‘banker’s boxes’ of various pictures-—from great grand parents, all the way to today’s grandchildren & everything in between and put them all onto CD’s.
Then instead of just carefully storing the boxes, she actually BURNED everything-—said she never needed tham again.
I didn’t tell her about what I knew from where I had worked. The deed was done!
Nurse: 'This is really good. You'll be able to see all your records on-line any time you want'.And I'll decline again if 'asked' when I go back on July 9th.
Me: 'And so will the Government, or any Hacker who may get mad at you. So no thanks'.