The dismissal of the case against Dr. Eithan Haim in U.S. district court in Houston comes as the Trump administration in its first week has already issued executive orders rolling back transgender rights.
Prosecutors had said that Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, took the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent to cause malicious harm” to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, one of the nation’s largest pediatric hospitals.
Haim works in the Dallas area but had previously worked at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment alleged that Haim asked to reactivate his login there and in 2023 began accessing information on pediatric patients not under his care and then turned it over to a media contact.
If the patients hadn’t been transgender, this would not have been dropped. It is illegal to share that data no matter what…
Oh you missed the news about congress wanting to insert AI into the medical system, including diagnosis and dispensing medicine.
An AI does not have any sort of doctor-patient confidentiality.
So it won’t just be trans people, it will be anyone who’s health issues make them undesirable in the eyes of the government. For example, people who turn out to be part of a group genetically even if they don’t look like it.
Ah yes… copying United Healthcare is exactly what the official government position should be. It’s not like that has resulted in ANYTHING happening to the guy in charge.
The UHC CEO didn’t have trained government forces to protect him. Trump already has Secret Service protection and you can bet your ass that the first time anyone tries something like Luigi Mangione did, that protection will get far broader (to all of his administration if possible) and far stronger.
Because corporations are super powerful, but they don’t have their own giant military and security forces like the U.S. government does.
I never mentioned Trump. There are plenty of other department heads and managers that will implement these things, they’re just as culpable all the way down the line.
Besides, Trump’s already had 1.5 attempts, and those show the Secret Service were/are utterly incompetent at active protection now. We saw what they could do, not prevent a sniper from taking multiple shots from a clear rooftop. And letting a guy sit in a bush at the edge of Mar-A-Lago for nearly 12 hours. Not exactly the best protection there, and that’s what you get when the primary requirement is loyalty over anything else, the real professionals don’t stick around.
There are plenty of heavily armed private security/private military contractors for hire. Fuck, Boeing clearly has at least one hitman on retainer given their recent whistleblowers. You honestly think billionaires of all people would have any problem hiring whoever they wanted to? Hell, most of those companies hire directly from the military anyway, so they have the exact same training, but get paid way better in the private sector to give some fucks.
The people all the way down the line will have full military protection given to them with instructions to shoot anyone who looks at them funny. You have way too much faith in the system. These people do not care about the law. They are the law. America is now a fascist dictatorship.
And billionaires don’t have one of the world’s largest and most powerful military forces at their disposal, forces that Trump has already announced his intentions to use domestically.
People really need to stop thinking that things are not all that different from before.
They are pulling protection details from people like Fauci, career non-partisan government officials who’ve been branded enemies of the right. Besides the obvious, I’m sure part of the reason was to re-allocate those resources elsewhere.
There’s no way they would allow this kind of discrimination in AI it’s not like AI has been proven to be racist? Right?
Legit tho, has AI ever not been used to discriminate in situations like this?
False… Any system that access medical data needs to follow the same HIPAA laws regarding information access. Putting that info into a database doesn’t absorb you of the responsibility of protecting that data, neither would giving access to that database to an AI
An AI can be hacked. An IT person working for the AI company doesn’t even need to hack it.
Doctors can keep secrets.
And you and others still haven’t accepted that they do not care about the law. I mean this story alone should prove that to you.
See…if " the AI company" has access to the data, instead of the hospital using a local implementation of said AI, they’ve already failed according to Hipaa
Once again- they do not care about the law.
Why is that not obvious to you yet?
And you already acting like they can ignore it without a care IS WHAT ALLOWS THEM TO GET AWAY WITH IT.
Stop enabling fascists, please.
What are you even talking about? Who do you think I am? What power do you think I have?
I think you’re a member of the public. And when the public cedes power to despots, they take it willingly.
HIPAA will still and should get him terminated. It was not an accidental HIPAA violation for sure and HIPAA is one of strongest privacy laws. Healthcare gets slapped with fines all the time. They do not get ignored and most healthcare agencies have harsh policies around it. Ive known some incidents of fines, corrective actions, and terminations
The word you are looking for is absolve, not absorb.
That’s what I typed, my phone had other ideas.
Not just that, if you did something illegal at time X, it doesn’t matter if it’s made legal later on, at the time what you did was a crime.