My son had tarsal coalitions, (bones in his feet fused together) and we 
started that journey with a gait analysis.
http://pics.buckosoft.com/pic?b2005062205

I was excited to get a copy of the data. I thought I could POV-Ray the 
data.  The hospital said they couldn't give me the data because of 
HIPAA.  I asked the nurse what she meant. She said HIPAA was about data 
privacy.  I said, no, the "P" in HIPAA actually means Portability, and 
you have to provide me with the data in a reasonable format that I can 
take to another health care provider. No vendor lock-in.  I was getting 
upset, on principle, by then, because they were idiots. My wife was 
trying to distract me from my quest and calm me down.

I pointed out they were actually in violation of HIPAA.  That got their 
attention a little.  So they come back with "we can't give you the data 
because we can't get it off of the machine."  I asked "what is the point 
of the ethernet connection to the machine?"

Anyway, checkmate. I lost.

As we're leaving, they asked my wife to sign a waiver so they could use 
the data for training purposes.  I overheard this and lost my shit.  I 
was foaming. I screamed, "how can you use the data for training if you 
can't get it off the machine!?!?"

My wife grabbed my arm and dragged me out ranting.

Then we went for ice cream.

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dik
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