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Re: Feb 2 AHIMA meeting on S. 1360
Gordon takes Jamie's word that he is representing the general public
interest, the consumers. Jamie has no clue what EVERYONE wants or what
EVERYONE's best interest is - anymore than Gordon does.
What the health care providers at the table are attempting to say is that
many of the suggested provisions about which Jamie bleats at great length
can only be imnplemented at enormous cost to health care resources.
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uummmm lewis, methinks you are engaging in the very hyperbole of which
you accuse Jamie. Your statement that individual medical privacy can be
protected only at enormous cost to health care resources is just as vague
as anything you accuse jamie of. If you want to go that route then
**quantify the cost** to resources and let the rest of use decide how much
privacy is worth.
The technologist's tendency is to collect every scrap of data because our
computers make that possible to do now.... and better stick personal
identifiers on it so medicine can reach quantifiable data about what
treatment produces what outcomes. This holy grail will come with a cost.
I am glad that jamie is here reminding the technologists what the cost
will be.
medical consumers want to know what the hell you people are doing. thats
what we want and if jamie is the only one here who will tell us then I
would say he does indeed know what we want.
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