Let’s have a look at the homepage of U.S. Department of Health and that of its counterpart in China.
U.S Version:
On the bottom of right side of the homepage, we can easily find the section “Health Information Privacy”. It’s very striking just because it’s very important.
China Version:
No any information about “Health Information Privacy”. I perused the homepage up and down, again and again. Nothing can be found about “Health Information Privacy”.
The result of the comparison baffled me so much that I can’t help asking where the right of health info privacy is for people in China. Can the government expose people’s health privacy as it wishes?
As for the HBV carries in China, they are deprived of their due rights to study and work just because they are HBV carries. And they were treated as demons of virus.
As you know, in China, pre-employment blood test of employees for hepatitis B is forced. And the test result is NOT protected by any law for its privacy.
U.S. Department of Health teaches its Chinese counterpart a lesson!
May our own government will and be willing to learn!
http://www.hhs.gov/
Health Information Privacy
The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information, and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety.
http://www.moh.gov.cn/
Nothing mentions Health Information Privacy
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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