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originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
a reply to: solomons path
So basically 'Life is but a dream'...and that's why we shouldn't worry about just giving away everything about ourselves like gifts on Christmas?
Naww..... I don't just hand over everything about myself and quite a bit can be deduced from what the thread is talking about. (They can work for my details) This is all a part of forensic accounting though and whole courses are taught on this very thing and how to use it to further an investigation.
However, health providers should have no business with anything like it, any more than they have any business asking about firearms in the home or other personal information they're being encouraged to seek in a "whole picture" approach to patient care.
Someone seems to have crossed health with life as a whole and figured one should required access to the other. That sums up the garbage and nonsense I've been seeing and reading for a long time now, while trying to understand the reams upon reams of regulation and bureaucracy this has all created. I doubt ANY single person truly understands all of what this does as a "package". It's too big, complex and layered at this stage.
So, the idea this might be happening doesn't surprise me in the least anymore. I'm sure there is far worse we haven't heard about yet. There is plenty for it to be lost in.
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
a reply to: solomons path
I didn't realize I was that cryptic. I asked if that was a direct response to me, as indicated by the fact that is said "reply to solomons path".
I believe the OP is likely accurate and the level of intrusion this represents, if accurate, is par for the course...to use a term our President would understand well.
So basically 'Life is but a dream'...and that's why we shouldn't worry about just giving away everything about ourselves like gifts on Christmas?
Nicotine and cotinine can both be measured qualitatively or quantitatively. Qualitative testing detects the presence or absence of the substances, while quantitative testing measures the concentration of the substance. Quantitative testing can help distinguish between active smokers, tobacco users who have recently quit, non-tobacco users who have been exposed to significant environmental tobacco smoke, and non-users who have not been exposed.
Please provide evidence that healthcare providers will be able to access an actual credit card statement or bank records . . . or that they could possibly use said documents in the way that is being claimed, if they could access such information. And, I'll gladly stop calling the OP's report or those that buy such nonsense as "gullible".
Acxiom Corp. (ACXM) and LexisNexis are two of the largest data brokers who collect such information on individuals. Acxiom says their data is supposed to be used only for marketing, not for medical purposes or to be included in medical records. LexisNexis said it doesn’t sell consumer information to health insurers for the purposes of identifying patients at risk.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which operates more than 20 hospitals in Pennsylvania and a health insurance plan, is using demographic and household information to try to improve patients’ health. It says it doesn’t have spending details or information from credit card transactions on individuals.
While the hospital can share a patient’s risk assessment with their doctor, they aren’t allowed to disclose details of the data, such as specific transactions by an individual, under the hospital’s contract with its data provider. Dulin declined to name the data provider.
If the early steps are successful, though, Dulin said he would like to renegotiate to get the data provider to share more specific details on patient spending with doctors.
“The data is already used to market to people to get them to do things that might not always be in the best interest of the consumer, we are looking to apply this for something good,” Dulin said.
While all information would be bound by doctor-patient confidentiality, he said he’s aware some people may be uncomfortable with data going to doctors and hospitals. For these people, the system is considering an opt-out mechanism that will keep their data private, Dulin said.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: solomons path
Good Find indeed !!!
( I linked to the same article back on page 1 )
You explained it better too
It takes two to tango !!