Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
Well, here is where warm fuzzy meets the reality of health/mental health care?

Here comes the rub....

There should be a system in place to monitor people who are in charge of transportation....Air/rail/road.

Now, how and what will that system look like, who will be in charge and what will the people affected think about it?

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Health records are pretty personal and I have mixed feelings about them being used as a measuring stick.....I agree that some plan should be in place, but how much info should be made available to employers and how will it be used?

One thing that I learned about working in health care is that when people are motivated to look into a clinical/hospital record, they have access to it all - Remember the Octo-Mom?

She delivered her kids at a facility that was part of the HMO that I worked for. After the births, people began to access her inpatient records and a whole slew of people were let go because of their 'curiosity'. Not a good deal.

The other hitch is the electric medical record movement here in the US..... That means that your medical records are now available, on-line.


This is going to be a tough sell here in America.

HIPPA makes any employer reporting impossible, and needs to change.

HIPPA was well intentioned, but makes things a nightmare. I can't check on an insurance bill for my wife or children. Mental health records in particular are sacrosanct, while they should be part of a screening for many jobs, not just transportation.

Using celebrity health record snooping as an example is something of a red herring, that's going to happen regardless. It's human nature. Celebrity comes with a price. As to online med records access? They can be made incredibly secure, actually more secure than paper, because you can't just walk over to the file stack to look.