Re: [twuug] Scary stuff from wife's visit to doctor

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 Feb 2003 at 9:40, Mark A.Davis wrote:

> 
> We do, it is called HIPAA.
> What a mess of confusing, changing, useless regulations.  It is way worse
> than Y2K.  WAY WORSE.
> 

I did not intend to imply that all regulation is good, but there should be 
something to ensure medical data is not lost or that systems are down for 
an extended period of time.  It's just as important to have data 
immediately available as it is to have the OR available when needed.  Most 
medical facilities already have systems in place and there is too much 
regulation, IMO.  It makes it that much more expensive for both the 
facility and patient.  What is needed is something in between what we have 
and what is needed.  My gripe is that labs should be held to a data safety 
standard and they obviously are not.  A three day network outage is beyond 
unreasonable.  In any case, if they cannot keep their network up, they 
need to have paper files in parallel.  What is even more frightening is 
the almost total reliance on computer systems to even complete tests and 
then have the network down.

Would you hate to find that a critical test could not be completed in a 
life and death situation because the network was down?  :(  It scares me 
anyway.

Leah



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