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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lately, I've noticed various medical offices are able to access all medical info, even from unrelated visits at different offices.

I made an appointment for DH at a walk-in clinic chain that we had never been to. I gave his name & birthdate and they immediately pulled up our address and his entire medical history. It was a little unnerving that they could do this!

He recently signed up with the VA as a backup to Medicare and they can see all records of non-VA Drs he's gone to in between VA appointments. Plus they can see all images, lab results, etc.

And his local Drs can see all his VA records, without any specific transferring between offices. Apparently there is now a common database where every office is sending the medical records.

He's never signed a blanket "permission to share medical info with other places". [/quote]

I have encountered this over-sharing as well.  It seems that local institutions are interpreting the consent form that you sign at every visit consenting to “use of the portal” as consent to share everything with CRISP….Chesapeake Regional Information System for Patients.  Unless you specifically opt out in writing to CRISP directly, your medical info is accessible by every doctor everywhere in the DMV.

I recently made a new patient appointment with a doctor in the JHU system and was surprised when that office pulled lots of information about me from Medstar without my consent. They pulled information that I would not have provided - imaging that was confusingly labeled, info from primary care physicians I hadn’t seen in 10 years, etc.  In addition, the whole point of the appointment was to provide a second opinion, so I did not want them to be able to see who the other doctor was and what they had or had not diagnosed and recommended.

There really is no medical privacy anymore.

And that is a very scary thing to contemplate in this post-Dobbs, Trump/ RFK era.  For example, RFK indicated he was going to have the USG purchase commercially available medical info for autism research/registry.[/quote]

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