I think it would be if the hospital did nothing and just let someone walk in with a camera and take pictures of a patient. They have a responsibility to control access to information because of HIPAA.
However, if someone does it and the hospital tries and fails to stop it, it wouldn’t be a HIPAA violation.
What we’re talking about is someone going into a patient’s room in which the patient presumably doesn’t want them there. The hospital would definitely have a responsibility to prevent that.
Well, shitty hospitals exist. That doesn’t mean that what they’re doing is right.
In the U.S. the difference is whether or not the hospital has permission from the patient.
If the patient has not given permission for the information to be released, then the hospital isn’t allowed to release it. There’s no gray area there.
I’m not sticking up for special treatment for criminals and traitors. I’m saying that everyone gets to say what information is released about their healthcare. As it should be.
For actual criminals, the police can get a warrant to get information.
And yes, a journalist can try to get information, and the hospital has a responsibility to do everything they can to prevent that.
The question was:
What is stopping him or a democratic senator from going to the hospital with a camera and finding out for themselves.
And my answer was the hospital. Because the hospital has a responsibility to protect the privacy of all their patients.
That’s all fine, but none of that relates to what I was responding to.
I was responding to this:
What is stopping him or a democratic senator from going to the hospital with a camera and finding out for themselves.
HIPAA would definitely require the hospital to prevent a democratic senator from going into the hospital with a camera.
Even if they got to the lobby with the camera, they damn sure shouldn’t be permitted to point the camera at any patient regardless of whether he was a traitorous scumbag senator or just a regular person.
That’s pretty pathetic.
I’d guess it’s primarily the same thing that prevents normal people from changing jobs: losing money, losing healthcare, not being able to pay your mortgage, not being able to take care of your family.
You must have had different HIPAA training than I did.
We were told we couldn’t even acknowledge whether or not a person was a patient without permission from the patient.
Walking around a hospital is one thing. Walking into a patient’s room to confront them is something completely different. A hospital would have a responsibility to prevent that from happening.
“The corporate media system and the political establishment got to act as judge, jury, and executioner,” Platner said in an 11 minute, 15 second campaign video. “We live in a political system that is not built for normal people.”
Ok, I’m disappointed, but seriously? Is he trying to suggest that it’s all a lie, or is he trying to suggest that all normal people have a couple sexual assaults in their background?
Does he think his history counts as “normal people”?
The hospitals you know must be pretty bad.
Where I work you can go to the lobby or the gift shop, but you can’t get into a patient area without permission. The doors won’t open for you.
Same goes for hospitals where I’ve visited family. I have to call in from the panel at the door to get someone from the nurse’s station to let me in.
HIPAA. Apart from anything else, the hospital would stop them. You don’t get to visit someone in the hospital unless the patient wants you to.
Yeah, I feel like blocking @stenAanden@feddit.dk for that image alone.
Probably? It’s obviously what all the bathroom bills and ID stuff is all about.
Well, this is where I saw it.
invent your own Internet
Seriously, please. The one we have now sucks.
“We went to bed one night, and when we woke the next morning, they were there! Someone must have bolted them on.”
Well, I guess you can be glad more than half got it right.
To avoid losing fingers, hold the fireworks in your mouth while you light them.
I have also heard it as a stopped clock.