[mdlug] A plan to digitize health care - My Apology

[Dan DeSloover]

Absolutely, it's written into HIPAA. A patient owns their individual
record and the doctor owns the entire data set.

allen wrote:
> Is it as cut and dried as that?
>
> The reason I ask is the last time I read about ownership of personal
> data the issue was far from settled and pretty contentious. Or is data
> ownership clearly established for medical data only?
>
> Allen
>
> Dan DeSloover wrote:
>> Interesting. The software company does know that the data belongs to the
>> doctor and the patients, right?
>>
>> While the company may have a proprietary interest in database, schema
>> and
>> client interface they don't own the data.
>>
>> Any doctor's office caught in this kind of trap should be able to get a
>> data dump (into CSV, HL7) and then immediately switch practice
>> management
>> systems.
>>
>
>


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Dan DeSloover
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