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Even if our DQS reports are downloaded and uploaded to and from the MQ mainframe, we still have the opportunity to copy and paste information to a personal file on our computer before uploading and can basically do anything we want with that information... including creating a database of names, SSNs, DOBs, etc., for sale to someone who will use that information for evil and/or illegal purposes. If we MQ MTs can do it here in the US, so can any MT anywhere else in the world who works for MQ.
How it was explained to me was that regardless of HIPPA (or HIPAA or whatever the heck it is), if a medical record is ''leaked'' out to a third party from someone who transcribed it in another country, our laws cannot be enforced over there. If it happens on US soil, we can and probably will be sued.
Not much different than when someone from another country commits a murder in the US and then returns to their country of origin... the US cannot prosecute there and their country does not have to extradite (?) them back to the US if they don't want to.
I'm not saying this is the gospel truth, just how it was explained to me by someone I trust who knows a lot more about international law than I do.
If anyone has any further insight or proof for or against this reasoning, please enlighten us.
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Here's how it was explained to me...sm - Resignation Ready
