A cautious approach is stressed by Trisha Torrey, as she comments on the upcoming launch of Revolution Health:
Case’s program, and the commentor’s program, involve patients keeping their own records online. These are the systems that make me more nervous, because there are no standards, and because too many people are not savvy enough to be cautious enough about what they store online. They are fertile ground for hackers who want to steal information: health insurance information, in particular, makes it easy to grab someone’s social security information.And that leads to medical identity theft.
Related posts:
- Defending your online reputation
- Medical identity theft
- How much do medical records go for in the black market?
- Do electronic medical records raise malpractice risk?
- Using Wikipedia for online health information, my USA Today column
- Should advance directives be stored online on Google Health?
- Cleaning up your online reputation
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What most people don’t stop to think about is that medical record privacy laws and ethics exist for the protection of provider generated and held records.
That leaves all these “Personal Health Records” that are patient generated and being encouraged by corporate American right now, completely unprotected by anthing other than whatever “promise” the corportations make–and anyone who didn’t come off the cotton mule yesterday knows how much that is worth. Once individuals voluntary surrender this private information, that is what they are doing when they create one of these web based PHR, it can by used by the company for employment decisions, promotion, marketing–anything, anything whatsoever!
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