Rumour has it that NSA agents are jealous:
… despite the fact that navigators will have access to sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and tax returns, there will be no criminal background checks required for them. Indeed, they won’t even have to have high-school diplomas.
Holy Geez. “Navigators”. Talk about a make-believe job.
All of a sudden Ontario’s useless “Butternut Health Assessors” have been given an air of legitimacy!
“they won’t even have to have high-school diplomas. ”
So what? Has anybody really proven the Zero has even one?
Completely off topic—I am overjoyed to report that a future King of Canada has just been born. God be thanked!
God almighty! The potential for disaster is SO apparent,but I guess Obama’s people don’t care as long as they get their precious FREEE docterin’.
But….but….what do we need a King for? We already have a Messiah.
Why bother with a background checks, Obama want’s to hire some of those millions of illegals and what a great place to start?
They could solve Detroit’s unemployment problem and BOnus – half are literate.
So first the IRS hires 16,000 new agents to enforce healthcare, now the HHS is going to hire an army of ‘navigators’. I guess all these new public servants are working for free since Obamacare is supposed to lower costs, right?
Come on, edjumacation is so racist. You need to be culturally sensitive and be able to speak to the “Jeantel’s” of the world in their own language and cultural metaphors.
Of course they’ll be unionized and given a good pension. How else is the middle class going to re-built in Amerikkka.
al_in_Ottawa….if it saves just one child’s life. They can reap what they have sown, I just pray it doesn’t hit us to bad.
Canadians should not feel at all smug about this, we have our own digital medical records push quietly going on here.
Yeah that’s right, the two billion Dalton poured down the DMR well didn’t slow them down at all. Doctors are actively being lobbied by OHIP to switch their record keeping to digital and large money is being offered to incentivize it.
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.ca/2013/07/electronic-medical-records-ultimate-bad.html
Oh and btw, if you have anything that could even at a stretch be viewed as a mental health issue, like counselling or meds… kiss that gun permit goodbye one of these days real soon.
there will be no criminal background checks required for them. Indeed, they won’t even have to have high-school diplomas.
This sounds like it’s going to be an affirmative action project. Holder and Obama’s peeps get priority.
This is just the tip of the iceberg – you didn’t really thick Obamacare was about anything more than compiling a huge data base of people’s medical records/conditions – what a corrupt government can do with that data boggles the mind.
A job for Trayvon, just when he doesn’t need it any more!!!!!
Phantom, my EMR is an open source program and resides entirely at my clinic. No government agents have access to it. However, I still use good old paper records and will continue to do so until I can insert another layer of encryption into the EMR. This would require two passkeys; one held by the patient and the other by the physician. If my records were acquired by statists using a subpoena, I would be forced to hand over my encryption key but there is no such requirement for the patient to hand theirs over. Thus, one has secure medical records.
In BC there has been a strong push to get doctors to get “government approved” EMR’s and 80% of the cost of the EMR is paid by the BC government. There’s a couple of big disincentives in this for me: first, all of the patient records must be stored at a central government repository and secondly the software one uses is closed source. Both of these were completely unacceptable conditions. I use Oscar which is open source, but the government doesn’t like open source because “no one is in charge”. Obviously the concept of self-organizing systems is beyond their comprehension.
What concerns me is that the US system will be tied to voter registration and look for huge numbers of illegal immigrants to be signed up for free health care and registered to vote. I forsee a role for a few strategically placed EMP devices to scramble government databases.
Given that Canadian medical care is on the level of N. Korea and Cuba, I very much doubt that we have to worry about EMR’s for some time. Given that there’s absolutely no benefit to a physician in having an EMR (unless they happen to like programming and this is a neat project to undertake) the vast majority of Canadian physicians stick to paper. Paper records have one layer of weak encryption – the atrocious state of physician handwriting. I usually can read my notes but there have been instances when I’ve been in court and had to admit that I hadn’t a clue what I’d scrawled during a particular visit. Canadian physicians, being quite underpaid by international standards, spend no money frivolously. Thus, unlike dentists who have well furnished patient waiting areas and all of the latest gadgets, Canadian doctors offices are the most sparsely furnished no frills establishments one is likely to see. So, any spooks who want access to medical records are going to have to wade through volumes of paper and illegible handwriting. I guess that’s one of the benefits of a socialized medical system.
“Completely off topic—I am overjoyed to report that a future King of Canada has just been born. God be thanked!”
Well, Dick, This once I completely agree with you (I know it may come as a shock to you to hear this from a dedicated Papist and active member of the Knights of Columbus).
As I wrote elsewhere in SDA today, looking at the unholy mess the US is in right now I can only thank our ancestors for choosing to stick with King George III.
Loki, I had a look at Oscar, it seems pretty good.
My expectation is that as EMR becomes more ubiquitous, EMR records will become a condition of payment for physicians. In the USA every patient requires ten sheets of insurance forms filled out for the doc to get paid, there’s no way it isn’t going to happen in Canada too.
IMHO, the only way to keep government apparatchiks from concentrating data is by keeping it on paper. Otherwise a bill will be passed and your encrypted EMR files will be seized. If you make them wade though the tens of thousands of pages of records -by hand- there’s no way they’ll do it. Not enough money in the world.