On 09/02/2018 00:10, dick balaska wrote:
> 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.
> 

How frustrating. You should apply for your data in writing.

I can understand you losing it when the other person is just plain wrong 
and being obstructive.
I got the brush off by being told that the tech was too busy setting the 
machine up for the next patient. But then I don't think I would be 
publishing images of my guts and bahookie. ;-)


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Regards
     Stephen

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