The hospital's privacy officer has made some progress with the encounter's list. The health records department is looking into getting all the diagnoses removed off that alienating list. Apparently they have to get the "vendor" to edit the content, since they don't have permission. If the vendor cannot remove the data, the hospital is going to add a second privacy directive to each date, so no one can see the content before 2004, the year when they stopped including diagnoses on that list.
I would prefer the data be removed, but I will accept the second option if that cannot be done. It's a compromise. Plus the privacy officer took the time to explain it all. That is something I really appreciated.
A little explanation from psychiatry was all I wanted all those years ago. They just made decisions and refused to work with me.