[mannyv]

Many practices today have a transcriber with every doc, and that person is their personal scribe. You trust them, right?

In any case HIPAA will protect you. Your provider will have a business associate contract with them, so they're subject to huge fines if they violate that.

This is a demo. In real life this'll be wrapped with a whole lot of legal contracts.

[c0m]

I trust a scribe because they are a person with years of specialised training and experience who can be held accountable.

> in any case, HIPAA will protect you

It protects you insofar as it disincentives honest actors from doing sketchy things with your data. It's punishment for orgs, not protection for patients, like how laws against murder punishes the murderer rather than protecting the victim.

The best thing a patient can do to protect their privacy is to be actively avoid of medical practitioners that, for example, use tools like this which send your private medical consultation transcripts to God-knows-where.

[manv1]

"I trust a scribe because they are a person with years of specialised training and experience who can be held accountable."

They can be held accountable, but it's unclear how much specialized training or experience they actually have. They could have had a 6-month course, an online course, etc.

And of course you're assuming their EMR is actually secure. In a small office you can usually find the passwords you need stuck to the monitor or under the keyboard.