The fact that my medical data is spammed all over the place with nothing I can do about it, but Nintendo is suing the pants off people sharing games they aren't even selling, is deeply unsettling to me.
@@no_country_for_real_men Uuh.. Nintendo isnt doing it because of US laws. They are doing it because of Japan laws. Japanese laws on copyright and trademarks are FARRR stricter against the consumer, than they are in the US.
@@lyianx uhh my comment was not about Nintendo. It was about medical records and in response to your comment about Japan & US copyright laws. No it's not true. The u.s. IS farrrr more strict than Japan. The only thing Japan IS more strict on the u.s. by a LONGSHOT is quality standards of vehicle manufacturing
I visited a doctor and read their spiel. I then asked for a copy of their privacy statement. They looked at me stupidly. "Your agreement you had me sign says you wil give me a copy of your privacy statement. And I have to SIGN this paper saying you gave me a copy. Where is it?" They looked for a copy of it to give me. Apparently, no one had ever asked for a copy of it! FINALLY, after 30 minutes or so, they found one and handed it to me. I said "Oh thanks. Thanks for the privacy statement that tells me that I really don't have ANY privacy." I make that statement over and over to their faces and it goes right over their heads. It's terrible.
I totally relate to what you're saying and am one of those people like you who pays attention to detail to what I am signing and ask questions. They roll their eyes at us for requesting the printed statement and label us as "difficult" patients.
@@johnnygeneric161 does it comply with the Privacy Act ? That's how legalese works by mixing up to ambiguity between all these books, to get the $$$$, funding. There is soooo much to it. Actually, I worked at a Doctor's answering service. Their licenses were constantly pulled for not giving the meds, they were ordered to give !!! Many would yell, " I'm just not giving that to my patients for this". One had the kahoonas to say "Pull it, then, and I will see them in court !!!!!! Few know what's going on with these guys !!! They learn the body, and they do see what's going on in the money machine. of this veeeery tough and stressful job they spend an awful lot of Money to get. To this day I remember that job. I'm so glad I heard it for myself and my friend had arthritis breathing in pain, but her husband said no painkillers. Now she was seriously suffering so, I 🤔 think, he could have relieved her....I tried looking other relief meds up with her. The natural remedies became of great value to me, then.
I've noticed that the people who need the information can't get a hold of it, but the people who would profit from it politically or monetarily, get easy access
I hate hipaa! Out here forcing people to pay for treatments they can’t even know what they are or why they were recommended. I’m sorry, if you are going to ask me for money for my dependent I should be able to know what the money is for
@@nwdivaInformed Consent. You consented when signing the forms etc. would you have read it or not most people don’t have adequate knowledge of that subject to say the information provided was legally sufficient etc. Most everything takes advantage of our ignorance. The average person must know all types of Law, business, technology, all medical and your craft. Most likely more Or you’ll be taken advantage of.
I worked at a startup where we had to be *so worried* about HIPAA compliance it was astounding. I mean, I couldn't walk away from my computer for 3 minutes without locking the screen because of HIPAA worries. And the amount of coding work we had to do ... incredible. Now I discover it was all just bullshit.
I worked at a workers compensation insurance company and had to go through training every year on HIPAA. From 2000-2018. What they are doing now violates that oath because they weren’t trained to by the illegal Democrat government.
@JescaML, All deluded bobos look forward to our literally criminal Republicist government ran by private rich lobbies to continue chipping away at government protections, the more empowered the private capitalist corporations are, they better in their questioning-controlled Republicist minds
I've always known this and always questioned my medical practitioner about how private HIPPA actually is. It always seemed that it was there to protect the hospitals and corporations
That is why its there. Its so some random Jo-Shmo at your job doesn't go blabbing your medial business to everyone... Because Health insurance companies want to SELL it to everyone... and they cant very well make money if everyone already knows, now can they?
One of the interesting things about medicine in Mexico, they don't collect bulk medical data so there is no privacy concern in the first place. In the USA the medical industry collects a creepy amount of information on you just to look at your elbow.
I used to work in IT and specialized in electronic medical record systems. Just about every medical condition has a "registry" that your providers share your data with who then in turn share it with other entities.
Which entities? I found a horrible medical record (based on hearsay) in my apartment file when strangely I was being evicted. Also treated scurrilously at a local college, when I had degrees from far more prestigious ones.
@@theletterwriter-n8qProvider to provider and for payment so insurance company does not require patient signatures. Everything else is required to have a patient consent. This doesn't include law enforcement/court orders obviously
Oh my this so rings true. A person had a health emergency crisis, and she was bombarded with tests, X-rays, denied food and water for 14 hours at a time because "they" planned procedures one after the other for diagnostic and prep services and it was a daily battle for her to get information, and she was as alert as she could be, even though she was desperately ill. She had to ask what medication they were trying to give her, she had to ask where they were taking her and she had to fight to refuse certain drugs and procedures that were against her wishes. She was faced with a battery of sub-specialists "consulting" on her case and ordering tests and meds for completely unrelated issues. It was a nightmare. More than a week into her hospital stay she was presented with a barrage of papers to sign when she was medicated and late in the day. Every question was met with massive push back and intimidation tactics. She is sure her rights and privacy have been thoroughly violated and trampled on. Not to mention being treated like a piece of meat, harassed and bullied, and shown no regard for basic human dignity.
iv had many hospital stays and many health emergancies only because i was born with a disorder and syndrom and when i got treaments after cancer surgery with chemo it was way too much and it massed me up aggesivly attacking the gene disorder caused by the symdrome i was born with . They really push those meds amd hippa crap on you , if you ask questions and or refuse signing things they up the fear and scare factors its jusy wrong then they lable you as a difficult patient uncoroppertive , the whole time your in the hospital or go back your treated badly
Was this during COVID, by chance? Because the lockdowns really inspired the hospitals to do whatever they damn well pleased. And there was little oversight because family members/guardians were forbidden from visiting the isolated patients. My friend wasn’t allowed to be with her husband until AFTER she agreed to turn off the ventilator. It was evil…
Forced digitization for data mining. I knew a father and son in private practice. They decided digitizing their records was too expensive, so they closed.
This explains why I received marketing attempts after receiving emergency surgery. I was sure the only way my details were suddenly available had to be relatedto data entered as a result of my hospital stay. This confirms it. I tried so hard to stay off those marketing lists too. Thanks HIPPA /s
Same. With Kaiser and Sharp.... people are asking which hospitals do this. It's almost any large hospital. Lol More women started to die during childbirth too when the hospitals opened for delivery in the early 20th century. Yes some were saved due to the hospital but I'd argue it's even if not more drastically in the negative direction.
Nope! All my medical data including x-rays full name address diagnoses was hacked from a company in California. They were so generous in offering 2 years of ID protection after waiting 6 months to inform me. Nice
Same, you must be talking about Norton?! I just received a letter from Health Equity that all my info the same that was taken by Norton plus even more has been leeked. In the last year and a half, my data has been breached 12 times 8, including my social security number. It is absolutely ludicrous, and there is not a thing our government is doing or will do about it!!
This happened to me for the second time just recently, and I never heard of the company that actually owns/overseas data for hundreds of facilities, practices, labs, imaging centers, etc.
@jtec99 well I tried responding to your post 2 days ago. Apparently, YT doesn't like it when you use companies' names that have been publicly named in data breaches, so I shall try again masking their names. 😉 Same, you must be talking about *orton?! I just received a letter from Health *quity that all my info, the same that was taken by *orton plus even more has been leeked. In the last year and a half, my data has been breached 12 times 8, including my social security number. It is absolutely ludicrous, and there is not a thing our government is doing or will do about it!!
@@doctork1708 Then you should thank both of the activists that made this apparent to you, even if it was by force. Did you lose anything from the "hack"? Or just get notified what people were doing with your PI?
Oh I just put a comment on here about that too. Yep, change healthcare. I did online search for them. Hacked in late Feb. 2024 Notice in washington post early March 2024. Notification mid Sept. 2024 Never heard of the place. Ugh.
Because you will be. Many practices will also refuse to take you as a patient if you refuse to provide you SS#. It is illegal to use our SS# for identification. These practices insist that they need it to bill, they do NOT.
@@doctork1708 Yeah, if patients could actually provide their correct insurance information and details that might work, but too many cannot. They expect their provider to bill insurance, but the providers cannot find the patient in the insurance companies system to bill. If you want to keep your SSN private, please bring your correct and current insurance card.
The HIPAA privacy policy document you sign is simply an acknowledgement of the fact that they have offered you a copy if you want it. You aren't giving up any rights. If they don't have that on file for you, then they can be fined massive amounts by the Office of Civil Rights.
I know one organization that was so afraid of HIPAA, they made me sign a release authorizing them to release a copy of MY OWN RECORDS TO ME! The US medical system is thoroughly broken.
I'm not US citizen but i know that US health system was broken since inception if i am not mistaken. You'd think Medicaid that was supposed to help those who can't afford health insurance would change something but as it turns out yet again Medicaid often discriminates people. Obamacare was good thing but didn't do much. In my coutry medical system is broken too but at least country covers basic health insurance for all citizens that are retired or unemployed, for employed citizens employer covers health insurance.
@@raughboy188no Obamacare is exactly what got us here and made it way worse; not to mention all the medical commercials on TV now with their awful jingles in my head all day.
I recently went to a new doc. I was surprised the desk gave me nothing to sign. During the doc visit she had tons of info she should not have had; namely medrecs she didn’t need and she ignorantly was confusing that data with other data.. She explained “We got laws. We can do what we want’. That didn’t fly with me and I contact 1 hospital and two medical schools about giving my data out without ANY written consent. The 3 facilities were very scared when I said that. I also wrote the Senate Committee on Healthcare etc etc. That included 2 senators from Nebraska, two senators from Connecticut, two senators from my state and Bernie Sanders! NOT ONE senator replied and the 3 facilities I contact all went into damage control mode. Note the med center I visited wrote me later requesting my signature which I would not give them. Yes our system is complete bull sh^t. I also know, some years ago, my records were hacked at Univ of Connecticut Medical School. Then sent a letter about the issue. When I called them to clarity they could not account for what data was hacked AND they couldn’t even confirm the data was actually ever hacked. On another occasion, at the hospital I worked for, a person dressed in a lab coat walked in the building, past our dept receptionist, down and around some halls to steal a computer with dozens of peoples personal data (a treatment controller PC). Our hospital did nothing but write people and that was the end of that.
Provider to provider can share without patient written consent. So if you make an appointment with a new Dr they legally can get your previous medical records from your previous provider.
@@terintiaflavius3349 that has never been my experience. it has always been up to me to get medical records transferred and was told that is was bc of hipaa
@@terintiaflavius3349 yeah but even they don't know that and are spooked when they see it happen. It's in the video we're commenting on. Also, "we can do what we want" is never a good sign about anything, ever.
Medical professional, I work exclusively with medical records. The advent of electronic medical records created a centralized store of data, making it easier for criminals to access and steal so much data with a single breach.
Criminals? I don't wish "medical professionals" to have access to my records without my permission, and with limits and precision. I'm not worried about criminals.
It has happened to me twice, once for a huge University Medical center and recently for a company I never heard of, that seems to oversee data collection from hundreds of medical businesses.
@@carolhill8917 I have only been required to pay for records once. I make sure that I’m given an immediate copy of my test results during an office visit. I have a lot of records, but the tests a mostly the relevant parts.
We must revert to paper records, as being in IT, this is what I recommend to anyone who asks about privacy and security. No system is secure, it's impossible, we always have a way in, or anyone locked out would be permanently locked out.
And that is why I do. I avoid blood tests. Taking medications. My last visit with the doctor was 5 min. She just talked to me. Try get blood work etc. I did the stupid poop test and mammogram and I keep telling my body stay healthy don’t break down and be make me by patient or better I try find natural ways. Now if get stabbed need Titnus shot or need antibodies for something if I need pain killers I try use less I suppose and trash the rest. 😊
It has nothing to do with giving out information. You are saying it would be impossible to keep any medical info a 'secret' unless you are a doctor yourself with all your own medical equipment that you somehow are able to run while simultaneously being the patient.
I worked in healthcare for forty years and HIPPA was not started to protect the average patient. As I recall it all got started in New York when one politician got the medical records of his rival and used that in an election. 🤔
Yea they will share your information with everyone, but they won't tell you a damn thing. They will tell everyone in the world about your diagnosis, but refuse to tell you what your diagnosis is.
That is not what happens. The only time records can be released without consent is for provider to provider and for payment so insurance. Everything else requires patient signature
@@terintiaflavius3349 Explain why my insurance (I understand this one) got the information and places I applied for a job got it without my consent (not acceptable). Then explain why I can't get my medical records to find out what my diagnosis is and why doctors refuse to tell me. The best I got was a copy of my records with 90 percent of it blacked out. What are they hiding from me?
I also have concerns about medical offices requiring social security number on the form, along with your name, address, phone number, birthdate. More than once I've seen the prior patient's completed form laying on the clerk's desk, face up, with zero regard for protecting patients from identity theft.
Too small. It's a very small group of elites that allow them to make or not make certain decisions....as well as the issues with the electoral college. We have no use for them anymore.....they shouldn't be allowed to decide what our votes mean anymore.
Thank you so much for this video! I started to feel like a crazy person when listening to someone at work talk about HIPAA. I was second guessing myself because I was the only one that didn't agree with what was being explained.
That crap was made to do alot of damage. Including what you just stated. Killing rights and privacy, bringing down countries. Taking homes, killing jobs. Etc etc Yup! That disease WAS lethal but there were lots of exceptions as to who, and not in the way we were told it was!
I used to be a file clerk for a doctors office. The idea that anyone had medical privacy is so hilarious to me. They need to know everything about you so you don't commit fraud. Medical fraud is a big deal. Did you know that if you drink weekly, you're an alcoholic? Yeah... they also write down assumed lies. Like when people's fists "fall" into things "accidentally"
Patriot Act was the Tyranny Act Affordable Health Care Act made Healthcare Unaffordable Inflation Reduction Act caused further inflation I’m beginning to think they’re lying to us….
I got to eavesdrop on a HIPPA training teleconference in an urgent care. The questions from staff on day to day operations was eye opening. They have a great written policy but it all falls apart in reality. The staff seemed frustrated.
@@kellanaldous7092remember the "patriot act"? Likely the most anti-patriotic thing short of covid lockdowns done in this country in a century. And they called it the "Patriot Act" cck sucking gub'ment..
I live in MN. I checked the box that said I did not consent. The receptionist was shocked and didn’t know how to handle it. She said, “I don’t think I’ve have had someone say no.” That tells me that their system is not at all set up to handle those decisions. I’m sure my data is not being excluded from disclosures.
I looked up the HIPAA laws online and just trying to get the full policy statement is difficult. There are a handful of broken links on very important topics. It's disturbing.
A lawyer once told me that it was legal for me to go to a doctor, give a false name, and pay in cash. A lot of people see psychotherapists that way when they didn't want their employer to find out. In the early days of AIDS, people would get AIDS tests under a pseudonym, like "Donald Duck" or "Ronald Reagan." I imagined the doctor saying, "Mr. Duck, let's go into my office and we'll discuss your test results."
EXCEPT when your husband has dementia & hurting himself & you beg doctors to help… then they throw HIPPA in your face & tell you that as his wife of 20 yrs you have NO right to do anything about his dangerous & violent behavior… behavior that caused him to lose his leg & repeated attempts on my life. Doctors, adult protective services, police & family court judges all used my husband’s HIPPA rights as an excuse to violate my rights & risk my safety. I was forced into a hostile divorce & my entire senior life was destroyed & I lost my healthcare. I lost my home. My retirement. And I’m was taken from upper middle class to poverty. Lawyers are criminals. There’s no justice. Screw HIPPA… it’s a tool to commit crimes.
We live in a de facto technocracy. In a system like that, collectivism (loss of private rights for the alleged good of the community) applies to the masses but not to the ruling elites. Our system is also part oligarchical. I miss the good old days when I could come and go and not be surveilled all the time, even in my own home. Maybe Ted Kaczynski was right.
@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 Whatever company you're with needs its employees to file a lawsuit. You may want to video an interview with the H.R. and bluntly ask as if your niece or nephew cousin whoever applied would be "obligated" to surrender their vaccination status or does it remain private via law.. Inquiring with the State would also be advised. A copy of such HR requirements needs to be highlighted and sent to the Department of Labor as well Health to remove immunity and draw an inquiry.
@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 If you work in medicine, you should have more vaccinations than a dog pound. Sorry. It isn't a make money job it's a treat people one. Am I wrong?
I worked at a place where we had to make our medical records available to the insurance company, who, in turn, made them available to third parties to determine whether you qualified for things like medical leave or FMLA. I asked them how that was not a HIPPA violation, having strangers pore over my medical records
Plus, there's no hard copy, so they can edit the terms at any time they want (as a practical matter), even if the terms don't allow them (somehow) to do that.
When I got committed to a 72hr Psych hold, I recall reading their policy is to give you copies of your own records unless the Psych doctor doesn't think its a good idea they can redact portions or withhold entire indefinitely.
About 20 years ago, I was a new independently operating Massage Therapist. I had a basic health intake form. With what I was taught in school, I was terrified that I would violate hippa and lose my license. I will admit that as a young naive person, I never actually read the hippa law.
❤ Thank you for taking the time to inform, educate, and offer solutions in regard to our health data. I agree it is our choice knowledge is power and we need to know what they’re doing with it.
The fact that people have no rights at all is severely under appreciated. As usual this is counterintuitive, like all other matters in public discourse. Notice how the abortion issue undermines your rights especially how it’s framed in public discourse, you essentially making the argument from both sides that the government should be making decisions on your body or someone else’s body, the baby.
Indeed. The baby is not given a fair say in that case and babies and kids should be the most protected group. But we all need protection from the elites now. We need to band together.
@@ari3lz3pp the government should guarantee, or should not impede life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s a mandate. It’s a foundational principle of this country. The abortion argument violates this principle. I know it’s framed that a woman could have her life endangered, but the liberal argument ignores the nature of the matter. Fetus is alive and naturally the baby requires nurturing and to call a fetus a parasite is intellectually dishonest in the way that a fetus needs to be supported up to many years after birth. Scientist consider human babies as mal adaptive because of this, the argument being that a lot of other species the babies are naturally able through instinct or whatever they considered ready to go from day one.
It was designed to collect and share data more easily, that's it. They failed to push for any SECURITY and data can be sent with zero protections in physical and electronic means.
Allowing a federal agency to write their own law It’s not within Congress’ authority. Federal agencies have no law making ability and Congress cannot give it to them.
Name ONE. just ONE law, bill, exec order, protectionary action, privacy noninfingement, etc, for YOUR benefit that congress, senate, Any gvt agency has passed for our benefit. JUST ONE!
Read those privacy policies closely, even for providers you've seen for years. A recent merger among several hospitals created a new consortium, which mandated signing a new privacy policy. I was *horrified* by the provisions. By default, they had the right to sell your body fluids and medical data to third party commercial providers that they admitted had no legally mandated privacy protections. It was possible to opt out, but only after you'd already agreed to the original privacy policy. Even my doctor hadn't read the new agreement and was as appalled as I was by those provisions.
If ever you want to drive a truck. You give up your rights to medical privacy and rights to the company that hires you. It's not uncommon to get your license denied if you fail to keep your medical updated. They will refuse to hire if you do not sign your privacy away. When you resign that data has already been shared with gov agencies that now attach those details to your license for the remainder of your life.
HIPPAA gets horribly abused. For example, they overcollect in advance by knowing your deductible and %coverage, then take a month to file with the insurance (so that other visits knock down the deductible) and then wait a month to get the insurance check and anot pher one or two to write the check. Result... they play with your money for 3 months... great way to get financing for them.
We have similar concerns with My Health record here in Australia. Luckily, we have the option to Opt-out. Although this is not made apparent unless you ask.
Another great video, Naomi! I've been having this conversation with the local massage place I go to. They collected some medical information and have yet to provide a privacy statement to me. I've asked several times. They claim they have a strict adherence to HIPAA policy. I said that doesn't mean much. They don't get it. Maybe it's time to file a complaint.
Why would a massage place ever need to collect any data about you that would be shared with others? I used to just have a private masseur who I paid cash to.
This really needs to get more attention. There are foreign billing companies in India and other places that are handling all patient private information for people in the US. Now that VC are getting into hospitals and medical practices they want to make more profits so they have the billing done overseas.
Yeah, I wrote the ETL code for the regional NE TN and SW VA Health Information Exchange (HIE). They have a very entitled view of that data. My recommendation would be to refuse to visit practices who share your personal and private healthcare data with anyone else for any reason. Bring with you your own contract and demand that the physician signs it before treating you.
great idea but I'm sure you aren't going to be treated. Only their "legal" team would be allowed to review and consent to it and most Doctors work for an organization, not themselves
Yeah okay. Your advice basically amounts to "be rich, don't be poor, hire a private concierge doctor, ofc they don't take insurance, obviously." Nobody with health insurance has that option. Have you ever been to a regular pleb/serf doctors cookie cutter turn and burn doctors office? It's often big hassle to just make an appointment, or get them to do the simplest tasks, like have you actually dealt with a doctors office? You'd be laughed at if you brought your own contracts for them to sign. Then when they realize it's not a ruse, they're gonna call the police and have you trespassed. This sounds so delusional. Like it's trolling or for someone that has experience in the regular reality the serfs live in.
@@TimJohnson-x1o They will laugh when one person brings a legal contract. When everyone, especially the elderly who account for something like 90% of their business, stands together and demands it … they won’t laugh. They will cry.
People like me with rare chronic illness with almost no or no choice of specialists in order to treat our illness to live are basically screwed then. We can't just go somewhere else.
The fact that my medical data is spammed all over the place with nothing I can do about it, but Nintendo is suing the pants off people sharing games they aren't even selling, is deeply unsettling to me.
“Privacy for the rich and a big mouthful of stfu if you don’t like it”
-the menu
You were wasting time being young instead of inventing Super Mario😂 let that be a lesson to you ! 😂😂😂😂
yep -- it's called the united states -- land of the opportunists
@@no_country_for_real_men Uuh.. Nintendo isnt doing it because of US laws. They are doing it because of Japan laws. Japanese laws on copyright and trademarks are FARRR stricter against the consumer, than they are in the US.
@@lyianx uhh my comment was not about Nintendo. It was about medical records and in response to your comment about Japan & US copyright laws. No it's not true. The u.s. IS farrrr more strict than Japan. The only thing Japan IS more strict on the u.s. by a LONGSHOT is quality standards of vehicle manufacturing
When congress chooses a name for a bill you can be guaranteed that it does the the reverse.
100%
congress definition..
monkeys, a congress of monkeys 🐒 😅😅😅
flock of seagulls, murder of crows and congress of monkeys 🐒 😅
Or an agency for that matter
Such an accurate statement 😅
So true. A great recent example was the “Inflation Reduction Act”.
I visited a doctor and read their spiel. I then asked for a copy of their privacy statement. They looked at me stupidly. "Your agreement you had me sign says you wil give me a copy of your privacy statement. And I have to SIGN this paper saying you gave me a copy. Where is it?" They looked for a copy of it to give me. Apparently, no one had ever asked for a copy of it! FINALLY, after 30 minutes or so, they found one and handed it to me. I said "Oh thanks. Thanks for the privacy statement that tells me that I really don't have ANY privacy." I make that statement over and over to their faces and it goes right over their heads. It's terrible.
I totally relate to what you're saying and am one of those people like you who pays attention to detail to what I am signing and ask questions. They roll their eyes at us for requesting the printed statement and label us as "difficult" patients.
I had an oral surgeon cancel my visit because I asked for the privacy notice. The referring dentist then canceled me as a patient.
@@Juice-m7sbloody hell!
We here appreciate your work, even if your doctors don’t!
@@johnnygeneric161 does it comply with the Privacy Act ? That's how legalese works by mixing up to ambiguity between all these books, to get the $$$$, funding. There is soooo much to it. Actually, I worked at a Doctor's answering service. Their licenses were constantly pulled for not giving the meds, they were ordered to give !!! Many would yell, " I'm just not giving that to my patients for this". One had the kahoonas to say "Pull it, then, and I will see them in court !!!!!! Few know what's going on with these guys !!! They learn the body, and they do see what's going on in the money machine. of this veeeery tough and stressful job they spend an awful lot of Money to get. To this day I remember that job. I'm so glad I heard it for myself and my friend had arthritis breathing in pain, but her husband said no painkillers. Now she was seriously suffering so, I 🤔 think, he could have relieved her....I tried looking other relief meds up with her. The natural remedies became of great value to me, then.
"BUT! It says they can only release my records to medical partners!!" Except, EVERYONE is partners🤦
Including third party vendors
I've noticed that the people who need the information can't get a hold of it, but the people who would profit from it politically or monetarily, get easy access
Agreed and without the person's consent. What gives them the right?? 😡
That’s wrong
@@MichaelSkinner-e9jbut legal
I hate hipaa! Out here forcing people to pay for treatments they can’t even know what they are or why they were recommended. I’m sorry, if you are going to ask me for money for my dependent I should be able to know what the money is for
@@nwdivaInformed Consent. You consented when signing the forms etc.
would you have read it or not most people don’t have adequate knowledge of that subject to say the information provided was legally sufficient etc.
Most everything takes advantage of our ignorance.
The average person must know all types of Law, business, technology, all medical and your craft. Most likely more
Or you’ll be taken advantage of.
I worked at a startup where we had to be *so worried* about HIPAA compliance it was astounding. I mean, I couldn't walk away from my computer for 3 minutes without locking the screen because of HIPAA worries. And the amount of coding work we had to do ... incredible. Now I discover it was all just bullshit.
I worked at a workers compensation insurance company and had to go through training every year on HIPAA. From 2000-2018. What they are doing now violates that oath because they weren’t trained to by the illegal Democrat government.
I SPILL THE BEANS 🎬 A TO Z,
ITS WHY ILL NEVER BE A LAWYER I EXPOSE JUDGES, SCIENTIST & DOCTORS ❤
@@georgiakritikos4955 STOP YELLING
It wasn't. You were doing work for medical corporations, & their data is private. pick a better employee next time i guess
@JescaML, All deluded bobos look forward to our literally criminal Republicist government ran by private rich lobbies to continue chipping away at government protections, the more empowered the private capitalist corporations are, they better in their questioning-controlled Republicist minds
I knew we were losing all our privacy when they started electronic medical records.
I just loathe our medical system.
💯
It’s a disgrace through and through. Why Americans keep voting politicians who keep voting for lobbyist interests ahead of their own is beyond me.
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Just wait till they've secured you the rest of the way into the electronic money.
@@bnf449 I can't deal with it.
@@paws315 oh yeah 👍
It’s a systems, including your fb accounts.
I've always known this and always questioned my medical practitioner about how private HIPPA actually is. It always seemed that it was there to protect the hospitals and corporations
HIPAA
Your farm cow parents probably already sold you out you didn't escape shit
Their profits you mean
That is why its there. Its so some random Jo-Shmo at your job doesn't go blabbing your medial business to everyone... Because Health insurance companies want to SELL it to everyone... and they cant very well make money if everyone already knows, now can they?
I aired this concern while I was in medical school. It fell on deaf ears.
Typical.
thank you for speaking up 🥺😓
You didn't go to medical school
And you're not psychic @AllTheOthersWereTakn
The government and big pharma own all Americans. Look at us football game commercials.
One of the interesting things about medicine in Mexico, they don't collect bulk medical data so there is no privacy concern in the first place. In the USA the medical industry collects a creepy amount of information on you just to look at your elbow.
That’d be awesome. Except for those that have huge histories or huge amount of meds.
I used to work in IT and specialized in electronic medical record systems. Just about every medical condition has a "registry" that your providers share your data with who then in turn share it with other entities.
This has been happening for years with insurance companies sharing between one another , there's woman who gave a TEDx on it.
Which entities? I found a horrible medical record (based on hearsay) in my apartment file when strangely I was being evicted. Also treated scurrilously at a local college, when I had degrees from far more prestigious ones.
@@theletterwriter-n8qProvider to provider and for payment so insurance company does not require patient signatures. Everything else is required to have a patient consent. This doesn't include law enforcement/court orders obviously
@@terintiaflavius3349obviously
I worked IT and confirm this 💯
Oh my this so rings true. A person had a health emergency crisis, and she was bombarded with tests, X-rays, denied food and water for 14 hours at a time because "they" planned procedures one after the other for diagnostic and prep services and it was a daily battle for her to get information, and she was as alert as she could be, even though she was desperately ill. She had to ask what medication they were trying to give her, she had to ask where they were taking her and she had to fight to refuse certain drugs and procedures that were against her wishes. She was faced with a battery of sub-specialists "consulting" on her case and ordering tests and meds for completely unrelated issues. It was a nightmare. More than a week into her hospital stay she was presented with a barrage of papers to sign when she was medicated and late in the day. Every question was met with massive push back and intimidation tactics. She is sure her rights and privacy have been thoroughly violated and trampled on. Not to mention being treated like a piece of meat, harassed and bullied, and shown no regard for basic human dignity.
iv had many hospital stays and many health emergancies only because i was born with a disorder and syndrom and when i got treaments after cancer surgery with chemo it was way too much and it massed me up aggesivly attacking the gene disorder caused by the symdrome i was born with . They really push those meds amd hippa crap on you , if you ask questions and or refuse signing things they up the fear and scare factors its jusy wrong then they lable you as a difficult patient uncoroppertive , the whole time your in the hospital or go back your treated badly
Was this during COVID, by chance? Because the lockdowns really inspired the hospitals to do whatever they damn well pleased.
And there was little oversight because family members/guardians were forbidden from visiting the isolated patients.
My friend wasn’t allowed to be with her husband until AFTER she agreed to turn off the ventilator. It was evil…
You really should name names or sources otherwise this is just ramblings of an internet stranger
@@jamesmorris9120 It's honestly not even an unusual story. I've known nearly a dozen women who've gone through the same.
This is why some people are terrified of hospitals. Prior experiences like this one.
So, it wasn't to protect medical privacy. It was to monetize it.
Forced digitization for data mining. I knew a father and son in private practice. They decided digitizing their records was too expensive, so they closed.
@@deltabravo1811 that’s a shame!
Indeed. Brought to you by Bill Clinton. Democrats love to do stuff like that.
Indeed. Brought to you by Bill Clinton. [D.m.cr.ts] love to do stuff like that to us.
[Censored by sensitive shitheads.]
This explains why I received marketing attempts after receiving emergency surgery. I was sure the only way my details were suddenly available had to be relatedto data entered as a result of my hospital stay. This confirms it. I tried so hard to stay off those marketing lists too. Thanks HIPPA /s
Same. With Kaiser and Sharp.... people are asking which hospitals do this. It's almost any large hospital. Lol More women started to die during childbirth too when the hospitals opened for delivery in the early 20th century. Yes some were saved due to the hospital but I'd argue it's even if not more drastically in the negative direction.
It's HIPAA with one P.
Nope! All my medical data including x-rays full name address diagnoses was hacked from a company in California. They were so generous in offering 2 years of ID protection after waiting 6 months to inform me. Nice
Same, you must be talking about Norton?! I just received a letter from Health Equity that all my info the same that was taken by Norton plus even more has been leeked. In the last year and a half, my data has been breached 12 times 8, including my social security number. It is absolutely ludicrous, and there is not a thing our government is doing or will do about it!!
This happened to me for the second time just recently, and I never heard of the company that actually owns/overseas data for hundreds of facilities, practices, labs, imaging centers, etc.
@jtec99 well I tried responding to your post 2 days ago. Apparently, YT doesn't like it when you use companies' names that have been publicly named in data breaches, so I shall try again masking their names. 😉
Same, you must be talking about *orton?! I just received a letter from Health *quity that all my info, the same that was taken by *orton plus even more has been leeked. In the last year and a half, my data has been breached 12 times 8, including my social security number. It is absolutely ludicrous, and there is not a thing our government is doing or will do about it!!
@@doctork1708 Then you should thank both of the activists that made this apparent to you, even if it was by force. Did you lose anything from the "hack"? Or just get notified what people were doing with your PI?
Oh I just put a comment on here about that too. Yep, change healthcare.
I did online search for them.
Hacked in late Feb. 2024
Notice in washington post early March 2024.
Notification mid Sept. 2024
Never heard of the place.
Ugh.
HIPAACRETES 👌
Good one!
I think most people are afraid that if they refuse to sign all the documents handed to them, they will be refused medical service.
Because you will be. Many practices will also refuse to take you as a patient if you refuse to provide you SS#. It is illegal to use our SS# for identification. These practices insist that they need it to bill, they do NOT.
@@doctork1708 Yeah, if patients could actually provide their correct insurance information and details that might work, but too many cannot. They expect their provider to bill insurance, but the providers cannot find the patient in the insurance companies system to bill. If you want to keep your SSN private, please bring your correct and current insurance card.
The HIPAA privacy policy document you sign is simply an acknowledgement of the fact that they have offered you a copy if you want it. You aren't giving up any rights. If they don't have that on file for you, then they can be fined massive amounts by the Office of Civil Rights.
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You have the the right to ask why. I always leave it blank.
So "profits over people", always.
As with any corporate
Thanks capitalism!
I know one organization that was so afraid of HIPAA, they made me sign a release authorizing them to release a copy of MY OWN RECORDS TO ME!
The US medical system is thoroughly broken.
I'm not US citizen but i know that US health system was broken since inception if i am not mistaken. You'd think Medicaid that was supposed to help those who can't afford health insurance would change something but as it turns out yet again Medicaid often discriminates people. Obamacare was good thing but didn't do much. In my coutry medical system is broken too but at least country covers basic health insurance for all citizens that are retired or unemployed, for employed citizens employer covers health insurance.
You're not the only one...
@@raughboy188no Obamacare is exactly what got us here and made it way worse; not to mention all the medical commercials on TV now with their awful jingles in my head all day.
@@dannyteebone9233how so?
The system isn't broken - it was just never designed for us. Welcome to capitalism!
I recently went to a new doc. I was surprised the desk gave me nothing to sign. During the doc visit she had tons of info she should not have had; namely medrecs she didn’t need and she ignorantly was confusing that data with other data.. She explained “We got laws. We can do what we want’. That didn’t fly with me and I contact 1 hospital and two medical schools about giving my data out without ANY written consent. The 3 facilities were very scared when I said that. I also wrote the Senate Committee on Healthcare etc etc. That included 2 senators from Nebraska, two senators from Connecticut, two senators from my state and Bernie Sanders! NOT ONE senator replied and the 3 facilities I contact all went into damage control mode. Note the med center I visited wrote me later requesting my signature which I would not give them. Yes our system is complete bull sh^t. I also know, some years ago, my records were hacked at Univ of Connecticut Medical School. Then sent a letter about the issue. When I called them to clarity they could not account for what data was hacked AND they couldn’t even confirm the data was actually ever hacked. On another occasion, at the hospital I worked for, a person dressed in a lab coat walked in the building, past our dept receptionist, down and around some halls to steal a computer with dozens of peoples personal data (a treatment controller PC). Our hospital did nothing but write people and that was the end of that.
Provider to provider can share without patient written consent. So if you make an appointment with a new Dr they legally can get your previous medical records from your previous provider.
@@terintiaflavius3349 only when the records are recent and pertinent, and there was no previous provider relevant to the subject
That's nuts. If fully prosecuted having data stolen like that should be a huge fine.
@@terintiaflavius3349 that has never been my experience. it has always been up to me to get medical records transferred and was told that is was bc of hipaa
@@terintiaflavius3349 yeah but even they don't know that and are spooked when they see it happen. It's in the video we're commenting on.
Also, "we can do what we want" is never a good sign about anything, ever.
Another gem in our notifications from Naomi. 🙏 ❤
Medical professional, I work exclusively with medical records. The advent of electronic medical records created a centralized store of data, making it easier for criminals to access and steal so much data with a single breach.
Criminals? I don't wish "medical professionals" to have access to my records without my permission, and with limits and precision. I'm not worried about criminals.
It has happened to me twice, once for a huge University Medical center and recently for a company I never heard of, that seems to oversee data collection from hundreds of medical businesses.
@nicmart But yet tge I patient needs to pay to get copies of their medical records.
@@carolhill8917
I have only been required to pay for records once. I make sure that I’m given an immediate copy of my test results during an office visit. I have a lot of records, but the tests a mostly the relevant parts.
You are the criminals
We must revert to paper records, as being in IT, this is what I recommend to anyone who asks about privacy and security. No system is secure, it's impossible, we always have a way in, or anyone locked out would be permanently locked out.
The best form of medical privacy, is avoiding the healthcare system as much as possible.
That's all fine and dandy for those who physically can. But those born with the shit end of the stick aren't so lucky.
@N0sf3r4tuR1s3n Unfortunately that is really true. And sad too.
Exactly
It's really sad that it's actually come to that but yeah you're right.
And that is why I do. I avoid blood tests. Taking medications. My last visit with the doctor was 5 min. She just talked to me. Try get blood work etc. I did the stupid poop test and mammogram and I keep telling my body stay healthy don’t break down and be make me by patient or better I try find natural ways. Now if get stabbed need Titnus shot or need antibodies for something if I need pain killers I try use less I suppose and trash the rest. 😊
Once you give out ANY Info it's No longer Private..... Remember a Secret is only a Secret when your the only one that knows it.🤔
It has nothing to do with giving out information. You are saying it would be impossible to keep any medical info a 'secret' unless you are a doctor yourself with all your own medical equipment that you somehow are able to run while simultaneously being the patient.
Now that the SCOTUS has overturned the Chevron doctrine, the rule making authority that Congress gave to HHS should be overturned as well.
sadly it wasn't retroactive, but they could be challenged now.
@@MadsterV I expect a challenge will be forthcoming soon.
HIPPA and HPI often are shared, behind our backs. I used to work as a Nurse, Google gets your health data through the software you use.
So why weren't any of you warning people? You're part of the system and you'll be against the wall with the rest of the fascists
Thank you for this video. The P stands for Portability not Privacy!
I worked in healthcare for forty years and HIPPA was not started to protect the average patient. As I recall it all got started in New York when one politician got the medical records of his rival and used that in an election. 🤔
Average Joe they will look the other way, but VIPs or we'll known individuals will definitely have their stuff privatized.
Yea they will share your information with everyone, but they won't tell you a damn thing. They will tell everyone in the world about your diagnosis, but refuse to tell you what your diagnosis is.
That is not what happens. The only time records can be released without consent is for provider to provider and for payment so insurance. Everything else requires patient signature
@@terintiaflavius3349 Explain why my insurance (I understand this one) got the information and places I applied for a job got it without my consent (not acceptable). Then explain why I can't get my medical records to find out what my diagnosis is and why doctors refuse to tell me. The best I got was a copy of my records with 90 percent of it blacked out. What are they hiding from me?
I also have concerns about medical offices requiring social security number on the form, along with your name, address, phone number, birthdate. More than once I've seen the prior patient's completed form laying on the clerk's desk, face up, with zero regard for protecting patients from identity theft.
An uninformed patient giving their SS number as medical facilities don't need your SS number.
I refuse to provide SSN
@tanyarobinson1146 you can refuse to give a ssn. It is your right.
Government is simply too big.
Corporations are also too big. They are two wings of the same bird. It’s called fascism.
Capitalism controls governments
Moreso the people are too small. AI hasn't gone through a renaissance like the internet with smart phones.
@boslyporshy6553 don't worry. AI will further centralize power to corporations
Too small. It's a very small group of elites that allow them to make or not make certain decisions....as well as the issues with the electoral college. We have no use for them anymore.....they shouldn't be allowed to decide what our votes mean anymore.
Thank you so much for this video! I started to feel like a crazy person when listening to someone at work talk about HIPAA. I was second guessing myself because I was the only one that didn't agree with what was being explained.
During covid this law was thrown right out the window
Why isn't anyone acknowledging that 😮💨. They really tried to introduce "vaccine passports" that you would need to show to simply leave your house.
That crap was made to do alot of damage. Including what you just stated. Killing rights and privacy, bringing down countries. Taking homes, killing jobs. Etc etc Yup! That disease WAS lethal but there were lots of exceptions as to who, and not in the way we were told it was!
Excellent presentation about an extremely important subject! (Project Nightingale breach.) Thanks!
Well that's Orwellian.
I used to be a file clerk for a doctors office. The idea that anyone had medical privacy is so hilarious to me. They need to know everything about you so you don't commit fraud. Medical fraud is a big deal. Did you know that if you drink weekly, you're an alcoholic? Yeah... they also write down assumed lies. Like when people's fists "fall" into things "accidentally"
It reminds me of the sneaky Patriot Act.
Patriot Act was the Tyranny Act
Affordable Health Care Act made Healthcare Unaffordable
Inflation Reduction Act caused further inflation
I’m beginning to think they’re lying to us….
Yeah they extended that by the way...
I got to eavesdrop on a HIPPA training teleconference in an urgent care. The questions from staff on day to day operations was eye opening. They have a great written policy but it all falls apart in reality. The staff seemed frustrated.
Under duress.....unbelievable. I will try and remember the receptionist is not the enemy.
I'd swear this acronym had the word "privacy" in it. That's what I remember from the 80s. This seems like a Mandela Effect.
Yeah, I thought it was Health Information Privacy Act.
@@kellanaldous7092remember the "patriot act"? Likely the most anti-patriotic thing short of covid lockdowns done in this country in a century.
And they called it the "Patriot Act"
cck sucking gub'ment..
Given it came out in 96 you're REALLY remembering things wrong 😁
All of your videos are amazing! Keep up the great work. I know it takes a lot of time and effort to do what you do. Thank you!
Thank you very much!
I live in MN. I checked the box that said I did not consent. The receptionist was shocked and didn’t know how to handle it. She said, “I don’t think I’ve have had someone say no.” That tells me that their system is not at all set up to handle those decisions. I’m sure my data is not being excluded from disclosures.
I looked up the HIPAA laws online and just trying to get the full policy statement is difficult. There are a handful of broken links on very important topics. It's disturbing.
A lawyer once told me that it was legal for me to go to a doctor, give a false name, and pay in cash. A lot of people see psychotherapists that way when they didn't want their employer to find out. In the early days of AIDS, people would get AIDS tests under a pseudonym, like "Donald Duck" or "Ronald Reagan." I imagined the doctor saying, "Mr. Duck, let's go into my office and we'll discuss your test results."
I had a Mary Poppins sign in once, giggles.
They should call it a hypocrite violation inside of a hippa violation.
EXCEPT when your husband has dementia & hurting himself & you beg doctors to help… then they throw HIPPA in your face & tell you that as his wife of 20 yrs you have NO right to do anything about his dangerous & violent behavior… behavior that caused him to lose his leg & repeated attempts on my life. Doctors, adult protective services, police & family court judges all used my husband’s HIPPA rights as an excuse to violate my rights & risk my safety. I was forced into a hostile divorce & my entire senior life was destroyed & I lost my healthcare. I lost my home. My retirement. And I’m was taken from upper middle class to poverty. Lawyers are criminals. There’s no justice. Screw HIPPA… it’s a tool to commit crimes.
You need a POA for that. A spouse does not have legal right to the others medical records without patient consent.
I once had a bad dentist who sent me someone else’s x-rays when I requested my own.
Wow. This is tremendous! Thank you for making this. I feel quite deceived & let down
We live in a de facto technocracy. In a system like that, collectivism (loss of private rights for the alleged good of the community) applies to the masses but not to the ruling elites. Our system is also part oligarchical. I miss the good old days when I could come and go and not be surveilled all the time, even in my own home. Maybe Ted Kaczynski was right.
Welcome to capitalism ...
Bingo - and everyone thinks that vance & rfk are here to help 🤣🤣🤣
Ted was absolutely right...
@@3nertia Communism is just as bad. Communists always want to tell you what to do.
We had to pass it to know what was on it.
****Of asked, "Are you vaccinated?" Tell them that question VIOLATES the LAW.
None of their business!
Get a hobby holy sh*T
If getting a vaccine is a job requirement it is their business. You work at will. You don't have to work there.
Yeah, same. Of course they changed their HR policies to require disclosure in order to keep my job.
@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 Whatever company you're with needs its employees to file a lawsuit. You may want to video an interview with the H.R. and bluntly ask as if your niece or nephew cousin whoever applied would be "obligated" to surrender their vaccination status or does it remain private via law..
Inquiring with the State would also be advised. A copy of such HR requirements needs to be highlighted and sent to the Department of Labor as well Health to remove immunity and draw an inquiry.
@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 If you work in medicine, you should have more vaccinations than a dog pound. Sorry. It isn't a make money job it's a treat people one.
Am I wrong?
So glad you’ve covered medical privacy. Pls cover Aus too
My ophthalmologist got hacked, which included my SS number. Got an “I’m sorry” notice.
I worked at a place where we had to make our medical records available to the insurance company, who, in turn, made them available to third parties to determine whether you qualified for things like medical leave or FMLA.
I asked them how that was not a HIPPA violation, having strangers pore over my medical records
How can people believe that HIPAA has any meaning after living through Covid?
Naomi, I have known of Twila for years. Thanks for bringing her on.
I don't go to doctors anyway. I seek out actual Healers and we operate entirely outside the confinement of "legalities".
can you help pain Patients by reversing a medically unnecessary force taper of opioids so they can function?
Looks like that ain't working.
Forms are now a tick on a tablet as doctor offices go fully digital. There is no place to cross out or paper to sign.
I also think doctors are offered bonus pay to push the tablet intake system in the name of going green by removing paper forms.
Especially offices with doctors that get grants for prescribing certain new meds.
Tec4 m3dz
Plus, there's no hard copy, so they can edit the terms at any time they want (as a practical matter), even if the terms don't allow them (somehow) to do that.
@@roflchopter11 oof!! All sorts of trouble could come of that!
If you have a Smart Watch the world has a lot of your medical data.
🎯💯🔥
a very expensive real time data broadcast
So-called "smart phones" are just as bad with their BS apps that are often used to gather your info & sell it to anyone that's willing to pay for it.
Oooo! You have a new fan! Most folks just do what we're told. Don't!
Thank you for making a video about this. I've been sayin this for years!
Thank you for a video about this. I can't wait for the rest in the series!
I am Canadian. Ours is PHIPA. Says it's private, but you know very well how Government tells the Truth to it's slaves/ subjects
When I got committed to a 72hr Psych hold, I recall reading their policy is to give you copies of your own records unless the Psych doctor doesn't think its a good idea they can redact portions or withhold entire indefinitely.
❤❤so true
It just basically states they decide when , where, how and who they share your info as they see fit.
About 20 years ago, I was a new independently operating Massage Therapist. I had a basic health intake form. With what I was taught in school, I was terrified that I would violate hippa and lose my license. I will admit that as a young naive person, I never actually read the hippa law.
Your videos are a visual,aural,and aesthetic windfall for me.I subcribe and like.Thank you for the practical wisdom!
Welcome aboard!
❤ Thank you for taking the time to inform, educate, and offer solutions in regard to our health data. I agree it is our choice knowledge is power and we need to know what they’re doing with it.
Doctors conspiring against public peer review while being instrumental in war crimes.
The fact that people have no rights at all is severely under appreciated. As usual this is counterintuitive, like all other matters in public discourse. Notice how the abortion issue undermines your rights especially how it’s framed in public discourse, you essentially making the argument from both sides that the government should be making decisions on your body or someone else’s body, the baby.
Indeed. The baby is not given a fair say in that case and babies and kids should be the most protected group. But we all need protection from the elites now. We need to band together.
@@ari3lz3pp the government should guarantee, or should not impede life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s a mandate. It’s a foundational principle of this country. The abortion argument violates this principle. I know it’s framed that a woman could have her life endangered, but the liberal argument ignores the nature of the matter. Fetus is alive and naturally the baby requires nurturing and to call a fetus a parasite is intellectually dishonest in the way that a fetus needs to be supported up to many years after birth. Scientist consider human babies as mal adaptive because of this, the argument being that a lot of other species the babies are naturally able through instinct or whatever they considered ready to go from day one.
Thank you Naomi.
Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
It was designed to collect and share data more easily, that's it. They failed to push for any SECURITY and data can be sent with zero protections in physical and electronic means.
Allowing a federal agency to write their own law It’s not within Congress’ authority.
Federal agencies have no law making ability and Congress cannot give it to them.
Name ONE. just ONE law, bill, exec order, protectionary action, privacy noninfingement, etc, for YOUR benefit that congress, senate, Any gvt agency has passed for our benefit. JUST ONE!
Read those privacy policies closely, even for providers you've seen for years. A recent merger among several hospitals created a new consortium, which mandated signing a new privacy policy. I was *horrified* by the provisions. By default, they had the right to sell your body fluids and medical data to third party commercial providers that they admitted had no legally mandated privacy protections. It was possible to opt out, but only after you'd already agreed to the original privacy policy. Even my doctor hadn't read the new agreement and was as appalled as I was by those provisions.
Share this all over social media and tag agencies and congress.
Massachusetts has a newer statute for PII protections.
Shocking!
If ever you want to drive a truck. You give up your rights to medical privacy and rights to the company that hires you. It's not uncommon to get your license denied if you fail to keep your medical updated. They will refuse to hire if you do not sign your privacy away. When you resign that data has already been shared with gov agencies that now attach those details to your license for the remainder of your life.
Unless you have an accident it is better to stay well clear of the "health" system IMHO.
Absolutely true. Since doctors stated using computers to record patient info, my information is
available to any number of entities.
HIPPAA gets horribly abused.
For example, they overcollect in advance by knowing your deductible and %coverage, then take a month to file with the insurance (so that other visits knock down the deductible) and then wait a month to get the insurance check and anot pher one or two to write the check. Result... they play with your money for 3 months... great way to get financing for them.
So glad someone finally covered this encroachment I have been seeing for a LONG time now. Wont find this in mainstream media. TY❤
We have similar concerns with My Health record here in Australia. Luckily, we have the option to Opt-out. Although this is not made apparent unless you ask.
Another great video, Naomi! I've been having this conversation with the local massage place I go to. They collected some medical information and have yet to provide a privacy statement to me. I've asked several times. They claim they have a strict adherence to HIPAA policy. I said that doesn't mean much. They don't get it. Maybe it's time to file a complaint.
Why would a massage place ever need to collect any data about you that would be shared with others? I used to just have a private masseur who I paid cash to.
And your CDC is compromised 💯🔥
Yeah! The Walking Dead had the perfect solution for that place! ❤
This really needs to get more attention. There are foreign billing companies in India and other places that are handling all patient private information for people in the US. Now that VC are getting into hospitals and medical practices they want to make more profits so they have the billing done overseas.
So, why am I not surprised.
If it's important enough for me to sign it, it's important enough that I get a copy for my records.
Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf
There is zero privacy with electronic medical records at all, period!!!! No way!!!
Let's not forget HIPPA is US specific and not relevant in other counties. Very important for non US viewers to br aware of
Always we are asked to sign away specific HIPAA rights anyway.
"You can sign it, or you can go elsewhere for treatment."
Yeah, I wrote the ETL code for the regional NE TN and SW VA Health Information Exchange (HIE). They have a very entitled view of that data. My recommendation would be to refuse to visit practices who share your personal and private healthcare data with anyone else for any reason. Bring with you your own contract and demand that the physician signs it before treating you.
great idea but I'm sure you aren't going to be treated. Only their "legal" team would be allowed to review and consent to it and most Doctors work for an organization, not themselves
Yeah okay. Your advice basically amounts to "be rich, don't be poor, hire a private concierge doctor, ofc they don't take insurance, obviously." Nobody with health insurance has that option. Have you ever been to a regular pleb/serf doctors cookie cutter turn and burn doctors office? It's often big hassle to just make an appointment, or get them to do the simplest tasks, like have you actually dealt with a doctors office? You'd be laughed at if you brought your own contracts for them to sign. Then when they realize it's not a ruse, they're gonna call the police and have you trespassed. This sounds so delusional. Like it's trolling or for someone that has experience in the regular reality the serfs live in.
@@TimJohnson-x1o They will laugh when one person brings a legal contract. When everyone, especially the elderly who account for something like 90% of their business, stands together and demands it … they won’t laugh. They will cry.
People like me with rare chronic illness with almost no or no choice of specialists in order to treat our illness to live are basically screwed then. We can't just go somewhere else.
It cracks me up just how many people believe government regulations provide value.
What about health codes for restaurants and food suppliers?
@@chocomalkIn many instances....
When a person has limited resources and needs to get medical care, doctor office staff hold their/your care hostage unless person signs.
@@chocomalk totally unnecessary when you have a proper set of courts that allow harms to be prosecuted.
@@1erinjames yep... though there is nothing stopping folks from signing with a fake name. Like "Disa Gree" or "Sig Ned Underduress"
I haven't been to a doctor in over 25 years.
They know nothing about me. I have no medical history.
I've known about this evil for a very long long time.
If I were a politician, I would go about making this go away and enforce REAL privacy!
So what you’re saying is a family member can’t get your medical information but some complete stranger can.
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