Dangers of Online Medical Records

" President Obama's stimulus package includes eighteen billion dollars earmarked for digitized and medical records this would make you all medical history available online to doctors and nurses. No matter where you go for medical cat. My next guest says this could be a threat -- privacy she is adopted Debra. Crowned all the patient privacy rights don't walked over welcomed the program without you with a stuffed. You you thank you I'm I'm not going to argue whether or not it is an invasion of privacy. I want to sort of question whether or not it will actually happen. Because lawyers will challenge this development on the issue of privacy."

" I wish you were right that lawyers would challenge this issue but they haven't had the problem really kids. Is that we have the availability of all this data to private corporations and government now. What's really been striking is the change that happened in the stimulus package. Where for the first time we've gotten historic new controls. Over who can see our information. Who can salad without our knowledge or consent and we're gonna have audit trails."

" About any information -- you're in favor of it you're in favor of electronic digitized and medical records on a national basis you want to stop."

" Well if we do it right where. Consumers and patients control their data it's going to create the ability to have breakthroughs in research. And hand in. And then improve health and improve the quality of care but only if we stop the commodity is nation."

" American's health information and we hope that that bill just did that okay I'm. That the reason -- the rationale for doing this is that is going to save billions and billions and billions of dollars a year while you're adopt. Wouldn't really -- back much money."

" We don't know. There are certainly studies that show in certain cases costs and reduce. But if you think about electronic records if every doctor has won and they remind you every time you miss that -- In certain ways and costs are going to increase if people start getting care that they haven't been getting I think so I -- I don't organs. I think I see the point just just that every time we hear about health care reform and we know it's cost friendly it literally cost trillions of dollars. I just crazy how you could not count that much cost from the overall system simply by did you dollars in the run cool so mean."

" You know let's say I spend your millions now audio."

" No I I I think you're right I think the problem is that many people have thought. The technology is going to be some kind of fantasy magic that's going to. Suddenly make her health care in America affordable and of course it's it's not that it can improve. Many things the quality of health research and it could improve our control. Over who sees our information. So you have to do it right we have to really make a trusted system doctor Deborah peel founder of the patient privacy rights -- all of the -- old."

" So reflective of what can be done we could."