[Arlis]

Interesting. BY LAW (under both the ADA and HIPAA) all health data is private can cannot be released.

So both hospitals and Google are breaking the law big-time to do this.

[VTenigma]

They’re on the left, get over it. /s

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Arlis :" Interesting. BY LAW (under both the ADA and HIPAA) all health data is private can cannot be released.
So both hospitals and Google are breaking the law big-time to do this."

Meanwhile, people are voluntarily submitting prescriptions to electronic companies for periodic automatic medication renewal and packaging.
"All your personal and confidential information, and medications are now belong to us "
Welcome to the BORG !(SciFi , Star Trek reference)

[Harpotoo]

Both laws are meaningless on the totally hackable internet.

[discostu]

Ahh but it CAN be released. It just has to anonymized. It’s perfectly legal for a hospital to say “on this date we had this many heart patients with these demographics, this many cancers patients spread thusly...” Just so long as they aren’t saying Arlis had XYZ it’s all fine.

[Chgogal]

Unforgivable!

Who do we sue?