Taking away our freedom: Health Records and SHIN

Taking away our freedom:
Health Records and SHIN

Nipawin - December 21, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis

hidden
agenda
It was yesterday that Timothy Shire sent me an e-mail and drew my attention to the fact that

the SHIN's flop is really irrelevant when you consider our governments' hidden agenda of

establishing personal health records for every citizen. Our governments don't care about

throwing money into the garbage, what they care is to finally control the lives of all the

citizens by the implementation of computerized health records. This is why our own

provincial government along with SHIN are entering into contractual arrangements with the

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), HL7 Canada and the Western Health

Information Collaborative (WHIC) agency⁽¹⁾.

Bruce
Phillips
Bruce Phillips, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has explicitly expressed his privacy

concerns about establishing unique national identifiers for patients, facilities and service

providers; and introducing national standards for reporting prescription drug use⁽²⁾. Health

care in Canada is supposed to be a public service, and now we are going to have our own

governments going into the private business of selling our own health records.

privacy
It is disconcerting to realize the deceptive interest of our governments to govern our lives and

implement the consolidation of computerized health records, while at the same time hailing the

efficiencies provided by the related computerized health network. Health care is dysfunctional

across Canada, the implementation of new health information technologies have been a disaster

across Canada, and now we are going to have our own freedom taken away by the governmental

selling of our own health records. And the fear that our governments are going to infringe on

our own freedom is not a joke, as this same privacy concern has been raised in the United

States and new regulations have been passed to protect the privacy of US citizens⁽³⁾.

-----------References/endnotes:

List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1.
-
The SHIN Saga of Health Reform: Common Problem, No Problem? By Mario deSantis, December 18, 2000

2.
ANNUAL REPORT 1999-2000, Privacy Commissioner

3.
-
New Medical Privacy Rules, by Laura Meckler, Washington, December 19, 2000, The Associated Press

Taking away our freedom: Health Records and SHIN

Nipawin - December 21, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis

hidden agenda	It was yesterday that Timothy Shire sent me an e-mail and drew my attention to the fact that
	the SHIN's flop is really irrelevant when you consider our governments' hidden agenda of
	establishing personal health records for every citizen. Our governments don't care about
	throwing money into the garbage, what they care is to finally control the lives of all the
	citizens by the implementation of computerized health records. This is why our own
	provincial government along with SHIN are entering into contractual arrangements with the
	Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), HL7 Canada and the Western Health
	Information Collaborative (WHIC) agency⁽¹⁾.


Bruce Phillips	Bruce Phillips, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has explicitly expressed his privacy
	concerns about establishing unique national identifiers for patients, facilities and service
	providers; and introducing national standards for reporting prescription drug use⁽²⁾. Health
	care in Canada is supposed to be a public service, and now we are going to have our own
	governments going into the private business of selling our own health records.

privacy	It is disconcerting to realize the deceptive interest of our governments to govern our lives and
	implement the consolidation of computerized health records, while at the same time hailing the
	efficiencies provided by the related computerized health network. Health care is dysfunctional
	across Canada, the implementation of new health information technologies have been a disaster
	across Canada, and now we are going to have our own freedom taken away by the governmental
	selling of our own health records. And the fear that our governments are going to infringe on
	our own freedom is not a joke, as this same privacy concern has been raised in the United
	States and new regulations have been passed to protect the privacy of US citizens⁽³⁾.

-----------References/endnotes:

	List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1. -	The SHIN Saga of Health Reform: Common Problem, No Problem? By Mario deSantis, December 18, 2000

2.	ANNUAL REPORT 1999-2000, Privacy Commissioner

3. -	New Medical Privacy Rules, by Laura Meckler, Washington, December 19, 2000, The Associated Press