Today's GT editorial states Oregon is working on putting all Medicaid patient info online. How nice. It will immediately be hacked, sold, passed around. The DHS is not capable of producing a hacker free database or one that will not be exploited internally, by medical facilities who will have access, employees of medical facilities or employess of the DHS itself. It is claimed this will make Medicaid patients healthier. Might I ask how?
The claim is if a patient ends up incompetent by medical injury in an emergency room far away, doctors there can access their records online. If a patient is in emergency, doctors won't have time to read through volumes of records. And, has anyone thought of this? Medicaid patients are poor and don't really travel much as a result. The liklihood of an OR medicaid patient ending up in an ER far far away from Oregon is really really low.
Also, many Medicaid patients don't have internet access. The claim has been that patients could review/obsess over their records online at home. Reality check. Many maybe most medicaid recipients do not have online access.
The DHS has inadvertantly released medicaid records before, with names attached. They claimed it to be just a mistake, an embarrassing mistake for some, the clients, who had no clue their personal case histories, with their names, were being used in employee training manuels that were, inadvertantly, placed online for all to see.
The DHS is the same agency who oversees the mental health system in which I suffered so much abuse by DHS paid facilities, including Oregon State Hospital. Do I trust them? Um---NO!!!!!
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