Transcriber Threatens Release of Medical Records

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Transcriber Threatens Release of Medical Records

Posted by michael on Thursday October 23, 2003 @01:08AM from the it's-10PM-do-you-know-where-your-gall-bladder-is dept.

talboito writes "David Lazarus of the San Francisco Chronicle reports on problems subcontracting sensitive data to outside firms. An unpaid Pakistani transcriber threatened to release medical records of patients at UCSF Medical Center on the internet. The article notes: 'U.S. laws maintain strict standards to protect patients' medical data. But those laws are virtually unenforceable overseas, where much of the labor-intensive transcribing of dictated medical notes to written form is being exported.' Most frightening, UCSF was unaware that its records were being sent overseas. The article traces their path backward through a chain of three different subcontractors."

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I think Nelson said it best: by 10Ghz · 2003-10-23 01:09 · Score: 0, Funny

Ha-Ha!

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Outsourcing gnomes by humpTdance · 2003-10-23 01:18 · Score: 2, Funny

Step 1) Pay offshore company peanuts to transcribe medical records
Step 2) ....
Step 3) Profit!
1. Re:Outsourcing gnomes by Zemran · 2003-10-23 01:29 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Step 1) Pay offshore company peanuts to transcribe medical records
  
  Ammendment to step 1 ) Do not pay offshore company to transcribe medical records,...
  
  Ammendment to step 3 ) Bigger profit
  
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To put a positive spin on it. by Population · 2003-10-23 01:19 · Score: 5, Funny

It only took a few hundred dollars to pay her off.

Even extortion is cheaper when done overseas.
1. Re:To put a positive spin on it. by Elbow+Macaroni · 2003-10-23 02:04 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah and then you are out a few hundred dollars ....
  There's a sucker born every minute.
  
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Re:Nice... by curtisk · 2003-10-23 01:27 · Score: 2, Funny

remember our laws are NOT their laws
*Evil laugh* Everything in due time, in due time.....patience! *Bwahahahaha*

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Re:Nice... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-23 01:36 · Score: 1, Funny

remember our laws are NOT their laws.

Don't worry, soon that will be a thing of the past.

Bush/Cheney 2004!!!