“Warning: What you tell your doctor could hurt you. Just ask the California man who fearfully admitted to his doctor that he had smoked marijuana as a youth. His medical record went into a computer...

“Warning: What you tell your doctor could hurt you. Just ask the California man who fearfully admitted to his doctor that he had smoked marijuana as a youth. His medical record went into a computer system where an insurance company later used drug abuse as one of the reasons to deny him benefits. As the nation’s largest credit report company takes its first steps toward linking millions of medical records in a computerized database, chances are growing that private diagnoses, patient histories, even offhand remarks made in a doctor’s office could show up on a computer anywhere” (Davis, 1995, p. 1A). Identify points in the medical office where there could be leakage of information in a computerized system.