Of course we had to ask this question as with complexities, if a doctor should decide to turn information over to the FBI on a patient, there will be a need to substantiate reasons of course. What even makes this even more interesting is the fact that none of the medical records can be used. That’s pretty much how things operate in the US with the current quantitated justification system that the White House, HHS and CMS subscribes to. Take a look around and see all the other “scoring” mechanisms in place that are using data and math scores to predict what you will do. The problem is, they are not accurate. I’ve spent a bit of time talking with doctors and pharmacists that time and and time again that struggle with the “scoring” flaws all the time.
Patients Who Pay “Cash” When Filling Prescriptions Are Now Called “Outliers, Pharmacists Required to Fix Outliers as They Show Up As Non Medication Adherence Compliant With 5 Star Systems Full of Flawed Data…
So even if a patient doesn’t talk about guns, want a gun, etc. will they be given a “gun risk assessment” now. This is how everything works as there’s big money to be made and some Heatlh IT company will jump on this one to have a software as a service
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against UnitedHealthGroup and Their Various Subsidiaries There Of Relative to Mental Health Claim Denials & Violation of Parity Laws
So this is what we have forming here, yet one more “risk assessment” some software and/or insurance companies can now make money peddling. We already have the 6 degrees of Bob Rubin, with Secretary Burwell running HHS and Andy Slavitt, a one time Goldman Sachs banker and more running CMS.
The US government loves risk assessments and publishing numbers, and they don’t really care about the health and care of US citizens. All you have to do is read a few of Secretary Burwell’s tweets on Twitter and that’s about all she states is that she believes number will cure everything, and that’s in between the multiple selfies posted so we don’t forget who she is and what she looks like I think.
Then we come down to the ONC division of HHS who’s responsible for HIPAA policy and what do we have there? A former United Heatlhcare lawyer writing HIPAA healthcare policy, so we lose again. We all know by now probably that Loretta Lynch used to represent United Healthcare with their anti trust lawsuits and so it’s probably not on her agenda to even look at what’s impacting the consumer with health insurance.
ONC Hires New Privacy Head, A California Corporate Lawyer From United Healthcare, One of The Biggest Operating Data Selling Companies In the US
So again, being I used to write software and have written on this for quite a while now, watch out for “gun risk assessments” to show up and companies to profit from it, while the data is flawed and of course we will lose access based on how the context plays out. Actually go down to the bottom of this page and watch the first video from Mathematician Charles Siefe at NYU and he’ll tell you all about how you are duped over and over and over with numbers. It’s a real eye opener and helps you become a skeptic when you need to be one, or use the link below. BD
