I see his mention of making records public has struck a nerve. There are plenty of arguments pro and con, but the one glaring reality of HIPAA is that our obsession with privacy is probably costing more lives than it saves, especially when it comes to keeping firearms out of the hands of crazy people. I know that insurance underwriters and other huge corporate entities buy and sell our health records all the time, so access is not nearly as limited as we like to imagine. Just thought I’d mention that.

Meantime, I need to remind myself to drop by THCB more often. I delete so many of those email notices from spam comments that I sometimes forget this place is still out there. I need to find time to stop in more often.

Carry on.

Huge differences between Reagan and Obama, not even close. Nice try, though. Reagan believed in America, Obama not. Reagan LOVED America, Obama not. Reagan was able to compromise and bring folks together, Obama has done all he can to divide this country by: race, income, gender; Reagan was respected by world leaders and they believed he not only believed what he said, that he would do what he said (Berlin wall falling, anyone), Obama is laughed at by other world leaders and publicly mocked (he looked like a child next to a true statesman like Netanyahu); Reagan wrote his own speeches and believed every word he said, and did not need a teleprompter to talk about what he believed in, Obama needs a teleprompter to read someone elses “polled” speech, and every time he goes off the script he gets in trouble; Reagan believes in a strong defense to protect America, Obama hates the military and is gutting it…

Shall I continue? No, I didn’t think so.

Good luck with all of that.

I was no big fan of Reagan, and certainly not of Bush. But to compare the two to our current buffoon is ridiculous.

Under your logic, Nixon should never have been impeached, because he only lied, covered up scandals, and misled the American people, (just like obama).

Exercising his Imprivata options would just about cover it.

Yet billions have been spent….and the spending goes on and on.

Why don’t we repeal any legislative mandates or HHS policy mandates and just stop? Let any private system that thinks they can make it work proceed, but stop the incentive payments and coercion…..the savings would be immediate and substantial.

That said, I can imagine that there isn’t time for a Chief Information Officer to ensure all that trivial stuff like protecting patient information when there are blogs to write. It’s all a matter of priorities.