But for the patient who becomes unemployable or loses access to healthcare the results can be devastating. Take a hard look at the next homeless person you see and ask how that person became homeless. Then ask yourself how you would feel if you knew that homeless person. Or if someone in your circle of friends and family had fallen through the cracks in America s healthcare system because data contained in that person s medical record whose confidentiality should have been protected by American law had been compromised through the sale of classified information overseas. Then perhaps it s time for a rude reality check.
Business people tell lies all the time.
Lots of people will lie to you. It s only when someone gets caught that things can really get ugly. It s time to determine whether your hospital administration and local medical society believes in protecting the confidentiality of their patients medical records or if they are merely giving lip service to the concept. Or because proper procedures to protect the confidentiality of a patient s medical records were not followed. If corporate doublespeak is not to your liking, think about the conspiracy theories that drive the writers who create the X-Files.