Comments on: AMA Pushes for Physician Ownership of Medical Records http://www.adammessinger.com/2005/11/28/ama-records-ownership Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:25:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Glen McDiarmid http://www.adammessinger.com/2005/11/28/ama-records-ownership#comment-8878 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:15:41 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2005/11/28/ama-records-ownership#comment-8878 There is no doubt that there is enormous value in aggregating information from individuals. However, individuals expose all to doctors for the purpose of improving their own health, and pay extraordinarly high fees to doctors in doing so. Thus, whatever doctors may discover about each individual, is done so under privilege and not under some assumed right. If anyone thinks that the AMA can aggregate our data as if they own it without substantially compromising the doctor patient relationship, then these individuals need a checkup from the neckup themselves. Just as e-commerce cannot possibly thrive on the Wild Wild Web as it is, nor can medical research benefit from aggregating the personal medical data of paying individuals in free society. Get on with the revolution already! There is no doubt that there is enormous value in aggregating information from individuals. However, individuals expose all to doctors for the purpose of improving their own health, and pay extraordinarly high fees to doctors in doing so. Thus, whatever doctors may discover about each individual, is done so under privilege and not under some assumed right.

If anyone thinks that the AMA can aggregate our data as if they own it without substantially compromising the doctor patient relationship, then these individuals need a checkup from the neckup themselves.

Just as e-commerce cannot possibly thrive on the Wild Wild Web as it is, nor can medical research benefit from aggregating the personal medical data of paying individuals in free society.

Get on with the revolution already!

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