Pardon my busy ignorance, but is this story getting coverage all over the health blogosphere?

One BIG concern is that this could be a potent and legitimate reason for the public to resist – no, *reject* – adoption of EMR.

Here’s a starter idea: every month email me a list of everyone whose login looked at my records, and require that hospital staff respond within one week to any inquiry from the patient about why someone did.

Okay, docs, tell me – would that be feasible or is the underlying problem that there are many many legit reasons why staff might look, so there’s no way to know something unusual is happening?

That raises the question, how did these culprits get caught? What stuck out like a sore thumb?

At a privacy event last month, I heard Marc Rotenberg of EPIC cite a story from Ralph Nader’s “Unsafe at Any Speed,” which eventually prompted automakers to install seat belts (among other reforms). As Marc re-told it, one automobile executive testifying before Congress said he and his family do not need seat belts: He practices reaching out his right arm to brace his children (seated in the front) when he saw danger ahead! The executive urged other people to practice the same method to protect their own families. Rotenberg went on to say, “I think we’re having a similar discussion this morning. I think we do not yet understand the responsibility that properly falls on America business when it collects and uses personal information about American consumers.”