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Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html ^ | Christina Farr

Posted on 04/05/2018 12:29:16 PM PDT by GraceG

Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project. Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had collected, and help the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment.

The proposal never went past the planning phases and has been put on pause after the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal raised public concerns over how Facebook and others collect and use detailed information about Facebook users.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; mediawingofthednc; obamacare; partisanmediashills; presstitutes
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Doesn't this mean they were intending on a possible violation of HIPAA rules?
1 posted on 04/05/2018 12:29:16 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

I think this is the beginning of the end of Zucky boy.


2 posted on 04/05/2018 12:30:38 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: GraceG

HIPAA..........................


3 posted on 04/05/2018 12:32:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: GraceG

An end around sounds like.


4 posted on 04/05/2018 12:32:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: GraceG

The proposal never went past the planning phases and has been put on pause after the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal
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Didn’t they mean TRUMP LINKED Cambridge Analytica?


5 posted on 04/05/2018 12:32:51 PM PDT by shelterguy (Bigdeal)
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To: GraceG

My guess is they wanted the data as an experiment.

They want to create algorithms to see if they can predict medical conditions and risk of death (expense) from the vast database they already had. Being able to match 10,000 patients to their Facebook data would go a long way towards creating that.


6 posted on 04/05/2018 12:33:48 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: GraceG

“Facebook” and “research” are a toxic brew.

If they have a “VP of Research” haul them off to jail!


7 posted on 04/05/2018 12:34:26 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: GraceG

Zucks one of Odungos favorites....
..he really really meant no harm, no intent, he’s really really sorry..and he’ll probably give the DNC a few hundred million to make it up to them


8 posted on 04/05/2018 12:34:34 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: GraceG

These leftists look at every sci-fi/futuristic/dystopian book and/or movie and say “That’s a great idea!!!!!” It’s Minority’s Report, for your health.


9 posted on 04/05/2018 12:35:53 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: gaijin; vette6387; ZULU; null and void; sheik yerbouty; SkyPilot; unkus; Kaslin; Liz; JLAGRAYFOX

So much for the Liberal joke that is HIPPA. Don’t you just love it when your doctor’s office wants to communicate with you via the internet. They assure you that it secure. What a joke that is.


10 posted on 04/05/2018 12:36:22 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Yes, I refuse to sign up on their “portals”


11 posted on 04/05/2018 12:38:52 PM PDT by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: GraceG

HIPAA penalties... aren’t they $100,000 per instance? Multiply this by thousands of attempts... put Zuckerberg in prison (as long as he left a paper/electronic trail per his instructions to said doctors) for max time.

I know the training I have and the penalties for breaking HIPAA rules are HUGE and we are personally at risk should we be involved in breaking them


12 posted on 04/05/2018 12:41:50 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: shelterguy

How’s come they don’t say anything that Obama also used Cambridge Analytica?


13 posted on 04/05/2018 12:43:24 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: GraceG; All

Redundant effort on Facebook’s behalf.

Just go to thedatamap.org to see how hospitals, providers, Heathcare insurance companies share All patient health data with databrokers.

Over 8000 entities share your personal health information without any guarantee it’s anonymized.


14 posted on 04/05/2018 12:45:31 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Well, “don’t we all discuss our gun collections over the internet with our doctors today?”


15 posted on 04/05/2018 12:46:07 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Slyfox

Cuz dat be raciss.


16 posted on 04/05/2018 12:50:00 PM PDT by shelterguy (Bigdeal)
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To: vette6387

I have Medicare Plan G supplement. That means I can (and will) fire any doctor who asks about guns.


17 posted on 04/05/2018 12:53:49 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: GraceG

Does that make them HIPAAcrits?..


18 posted on 04/05/2018 12:56:36 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: gaijin

You know...he could be the “fall guy” for somebody in a much higher position than he is.


19 posted on 04/05/2018 1:00:14 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: PGR88

It would be interesting to know where the hospitals were located. And if any were used by certain high profile politicians, judges, bureaucrats...


20 posted on 04/05/2018 1:02:25 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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