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This is going to set back medical trust for years (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Potatos_are_not_friends to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] roguetrick 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Shouldn’t have been possible in the first place.

I have yet to see a EHR that has access restrictions that would prevent this. Instead it's just logged and if irregular enough you get to have a hostile conversation that could lead to this.

Edit:

Haim, a Dallas surgeon, previously had done some work at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment against Haim alleges that in 2023, he asked to reactivate his login there to access information on pediatric patients not under his care, including names, attending physicians and treatment codes, then turned over the information to a media contact.

Okay, that's just dumb. Texas Children's Hospital is going to get fucked over this. Not only did he not have admitting privileges, he didn't even fucking remotely work there. This isn't just a HIPPA violation, it's straight up fraud.

[–] acetanilide 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah when I read that I was like, so all I have to do to get medical records is call and ask? Like I don't even have to have any affiliation apparently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In my experience working hospital IT medical providers can get away with a lot more shit because people try to expedite things for them so they don't have interruptions caring for patients. The places I worked had processes in place to prevent this sort of thing but I had a fuckload of arguments with various middle managers trying to bypass those when a provider bitched that they didn't get what they wanted right away.

[–] acetanilide 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like a nightmare

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah it sucked. Fortunately I'm pretty much immune to that shit when I have something in writing to back my position. They could call me every name in the book, I'm not giving them what they wanted. After awhile it gets kind of entertaining watching them twist themselves into knots when they just have to do what they're told. Especially when they tried emailing my superiors and I could hit them with a reply all explaining in simple terms why I didn't do what they asked and exactly what they needed to do to get it done and have my superiors just be like "yea do that"