On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:10:15 -0500, 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.

Sheesh.  That's just crazy.



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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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