Apparently, MyChart is a means of viewing all your medical results from HM clinics and hospitals. My problem with it is that I cannot find the "Terms and Conditions" or "Privacy" statements. It seems that one can only read those after signing up for the service -- which entails inputting all your personal data.

Now HM and other medical practices, themselves, are covered by HIPAA. However, I have learned that some of these "information and results" services are not so covered -- or at least not by the same HIPAA agreement (or statement) that the medical practice itself is covered by.

I ran into this with a previous medical practice that did allow me to read its terms and conditions statement before signing up. In that statement it said that I could not go to a court over any disputes with them (presumably including maybe that they gave away all my medical or personal information), and they named the arbiter -- which turns out to be an organization that strongly favors the business over the consumer (patient in this case). Furthermore, were they determined to be at fault, the most I could collect would be $100. So they could give away all my personal and medical information, resulting in identity theft that might cost me tens of thousands of dollars to remedy, but they'd be liable for only $100. Needless to say, I didn't sign up for that particular "service."

So, HM has been dunning me with exhortation to sign up for MyChart -- from a "donotreply" email address. I find no option to contact HM at all for additional information about MyChart. I cannot read the terms and conditions without first signing up.

Does anyone know a way around this Catch-22? Or a link to the terms and conditions and privacy statements? Maybe someone who uses MyChart already could post those statements here?