Like I care about his opinion of what's healthy.

This totally won't be used to spy on women who get abortions, people who seek gender affirming care, or other mental health issues. Let me guess, the first question it asks is your citizenship status?

He is ignoring the privacy of all undocumented people, using health information to track them down. Note, this is not just for people that have been convicted, but for accused.

Given his current practices only an idiot would give anyone access to their health information, rather get the info yourself and hand deliver it to the people that need it.

I visited another unrelated medical group last month. It was independent of my primary medical group. They had access to ALL of my medical history and prescriptions *without my permission given*. The system's name is "Epic" and is used in California and likely other states.

1) patients must control who sees what. Your dentist doesn't need to know you went to Illinois for an abortion, gender counseling, etc.

2) No AI harvesting. No marketing. No ad targeting based on your medical data.

3) only medical treatment should be able to request medical data. Not your landlord, not your educators, not your employer

4) it's your private data, it has to be carefully controlled.

Well, let's see what my experience has been over 20 years: (1) their webpage didn't show one of my prescriptions. The tech support person said "I see it, but it's not the same as the screenshot you sent me." To her credit, she worked really hard for about 6 weeks, before finally punting this to their Tier 2 tech support. The Tier 2 people promptly changed my password and forgot to tell me. (2) The voice response system would not offer one of my prescriptions when it was time to renew. I always had to "add another prescription" and manually enter the Rx number. (3) The voice response system was also very sensitive to background noise. (4) No matter how many times I said "DO NOT AUTO-REFILL" and the pharmacy clerks removed that, their automated system would auto-order prescriptions, often a month or more before I needed it. (Of course, the one I would want auto-ordered was the one from #2 that the system never would order without my calling it in.) (5) Then the voice response system removed the "speak to pharmacist" option, replacing it was "leave a message and maybe we'll call you back." (6) The latest change was all voice, no "say Yes or press 1". That system hung up on me when I tried to refill a prescription. And I watched the people behind the counter struggle too. "Oh, we can't do this here, you have to go to another terminal where I log into a different system" I could see they were as frustrated as I was.

When the auto system hung up on me (without ordering my refill), that was the final straw. I switched to a local grocery store pharmacy. They CAN'T BE ANY WORSE. CVS is the only company I've been a customer of where the IT got PROGRESSIVELY WORSE OVER TIME.

And they're going to fix national heath care? That alone would make me consider moving back to Canada and its health system... (But as bad as CVS is, they're just incompetent. Palantir scares the shit out of me.)

Where my medical history is in the form of paper, plastic and CDs that doctors give me. That's shit, but is less shit than Apple or Noom geting my labs by using incessant pushing and dark patterns..

In the USoA,IIRC, the department of Veteran Affaires had a FOSS system that could allow medical institutions (not silicon valley gallavanting cow-boys) share data between themselves, on a need to know basis, but the initiative was never driven to fruition neither by elephants nor by mules. That, I'd have gotten b

But Trump never was good at spelling. Or reading. Or anything really.

I am looking forward to the cult coming up with justifications why this is okay though.

If the Democrats actually had a proper propaganda machine then Republican spaces would be filled with this and talk of the mark of the beast. But we don't so...

No need to track me. I'll just tell you.

My health really sucks. I have a terminal illness and expect to be dead in 6-12 months.

So, stick that in your algorithm and see what it says.

Haven't we been talking about this since before so-called Obamacare?

> A provision of the comically named “Affordable Care Act” (Obamacare) mandates all health care providers adopt Electronic Health Records (EHR). That mandate followed a 1997 agreement between EHR developers and the Clinton's Food and Drug Administration. Like most “progressive” (meaning marxist/socialist) ideas, EHR was based on a theory that doesn’t actually work. The theory was that EHR would enhance the quality of care.

Hillary and Bill started the ball rolling, Obama made it a part of Obamacare, and now Trump is embracing the idea... OH NO!!!

I'm curious, where do people think their health records are currently? In a box of paper in their doctors office or are they in their doctors (private) electronic health records system?

It's funny to see how many people can't quite grasp the concept that funding PRIVATE EHR systems DOESNT put their health records in th

I read the synopsis and thought, "Hey, great! If I'm travelling, and end up bleeding to death in Bug Tussle, Nowhere, the doctors there will be able to bring up the fact that I'm using the blood thinner Xarelto, and maybe be able to administer an appropriate coagulant." I was told that this golly-gee-whiz blood thinner was very effective and didn't require diet restrictions I would find difficult (I don't cook), so I continued with it because it fit my lifestyle. But I was also told at the time there is

> Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who will be in charge of maintaining the system, have said patients will need to opt in for the sharing of their medical records and data, which will be kept secure.

Except for any data accessed by ICE... which should bother everyone.

[1]ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data [wired.com]

> A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.

> Per the agreement, ICE officials will get login credentials for a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) database containing sensitive medical information, including detailed records about diagnoses and procedures. Language in the agreement says it will allow ICE to access personal information such as home addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, banking data, and social security numbers. (Later on in the agreement, what ICE is allowed to access is defined differently, specifying just “Medicaid recipients” and their sex, ethnicity, and race but forgoing any mention of IP or banking data.) The agreement is set to last two months. While the document is dated July 9, it is only effective starting when both parties sign it, which would indicate a 60-day span from July 15 to September 15.

> The agreement allows ICE to retain any Medicaid data for as long as the agency deems it necessary. The document clarifies that this agreement can be renewed for “consecutive periods,” and that ICE also can share the data so long as the agency specifies who the recipients are in writing.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/ice-access-medicaid-data/

I recall a time when my medical history was between me my doctor and God. How easily we have given up our privacy.

Never mind that we have the most unaffordable, miserable excuse of a healthcare system out of any of the supposedly first-world nations. Yep, what we truly needed is *checks notes* big tech getting in on the for-profit medical data privacy rape-a-thon .

It's like some Republican ass kisser somewhere said "Hey, remember when Chevrolet was selling their OnStar telemetry data to a broker, which then in turn resold it to insurers? What if we did the same thing, but with health data?"