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Re: enough...


Well said, Stanton. There's little or nothing to be gained from
merely dancing around this.

peter marshall


On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Stanton McCandlish wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:16:43 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <med-privacy@essential.org>
> Subject: enough...
> 
> Enough argument about who does and doesn't own the medical records.
> This has been going on, intermittently, for a long time now.
> 
> Let's just settle on it:
> 
> The legal fact of who owns the record, and or what it contains, is not a 
> settled issue, except locally.  IF we agree that the patient should own 
> this information, that the record *is* this information in a particular 
> virtual "container" held by a particular party, and that said party must 
> have some responsibility for protecting that container as long as it 
> holds information on someone else, that's great.  
> 
> What do we DO about it?
> 
> Can't we move from an endless Usenet-like "discussion" and get to the 
> point: tactics, strategy and action?
> 
> If we don't even agree on what a record is, on whether health care 
> providers and other record-holders should be responsible for security, 
> and/or on whether all is or isn't right with the system, what's the point of 
> this list?  To what end are we burning time and energy here?
> 
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