Comments on: More Virginia Tech and HIPAA http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html medical blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:44:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html/comment-page-1#comment-74256 Anonymous Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html#comment-74256 I didn't know that starting a fire in your dorm room was protected by HIPAA. I didn’t know that starting a fire in your dorm room was protected by HIPAA.

]]> By: Elliott http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html/comment-page-1#comment-74238 Elliott Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html#comment-74238 Kevin, does it bother you that I read a particularly inflammatory post that mirrors your agenda and my instant reaction is that it's factually inaccurate. Just as in most cases, that is true again. It's a variation of an old joke. How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving. Kevin, does it bother you that I read a particularly inflammatory post that mirrors your agenda and my instant reaction is that it’s factually inaccurate. Just as in most cases, that is true again. It’s a variation of an old joke. How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html/comment-page-1#comment-74226 Anonymous Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html#comment-74226 I agree that HIPAA is destructive, and wrote the feds from the late 90's as the rules were being formulated to give my opinion on the matter. What he says the law does is plain wrong however. You can't be 100% right if your facts are wrong.<br/><br/>HIPAA is destructive in that it even exists and in what it does, and also in the industry's ramshackle application due to widespread ignorance and misinformation about what the rule says. I agree that HIPAA is destructive, and wrote the feds from the late 90’s as the rules were being formulated to give my opinion on the matter. What he says the law does is plain wrong however. You can’t be 100% right if your facts are wrong.

HIPAA is destructive in that it even exists and in what it does, and also in the industry’s ramshackle application due to widespread ignorance and misinformation about what the rule says.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html/comment-page-1#comment-74224 Anonymous Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html#comment-74224 Walter Olson is 100% dead on accurate about the destructive nature of HIPAA. Walter Olson is 100% dead on accurate about the destructive nature of HIPAA.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html/comment-page-1#comment-74205 Anonymous Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/more-virginia-tech-and-hipaa.html#comment-74205 Apparently British journalists are no more devoted to accuracy than American ones. He probably found all this in print or on the internet somewhere. But much of it is dead wrong. Apparently British journalists are no more devoted to accuracy than American ones. He probably found all this in print or on the internet somewhere. But much of it is dead wrong.

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