Hospitals across the US have granted Microsoft, Amazon and IBM access to millions of patients' sensitive identifiable medical records amid fears personal data could be misused

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | january 20th, 2020 | LAUREN FRUEN

[Adder]

Sorry...twichery fingies

[Cold Heart]

A family member spent several weeks in the hospital. Family phones and email were inundated with medical spam and phishing on day two in the hospital and have been continuous for months.

[polymuser]

Our most sensitive data now stored (at the very least), in those non-medical businesses’ servers (cloud is servers).

Data that can/will negatively affect our liberties and choices in yet-uimagined ways. Joined with genetic/DNA data, buying/drinking/smoking data, driving data, gun/ammo data (you use credit cards?)...are YOU a risky bet, in any way?

Guess what else has been in their sites for many years (besides gun-grabbing)...hint...our 401ks...

[semimojo]

If they are using the data to create a health or consumer marketing profile on individuals, then that would be a huge violation of HIPPA

Even that would be OK if they were doing it under contract for the medical provider and signed the agreements you mentioned.

These large healthcare companies use consultants and contractors all the time, many of them having some access to patient data.

[bgill]

We saw that coming a mile down the road.

[Nifster]

Yup

[Boogieman]

[bgill]

Ten years ago, we had to get a new doctor and she was all hyper over LE hubby having a gun in the house. We complained and found a new doctor immediately. She soon left the plan.

[Grampa Dave]

A very timely article. Today, I received a very expensive multi page in full color ad, addressing a very specific heart condition and a special piece of equipment for that defect. The mailing was addressed to me by name.

I showed it to my wife, a retired RN, and she said that that had to come from 2 sources. Our current big time HMO or the hospital that had done echo cardiograms before we went to the big HMO.

So when I read this article, one of the hospital pictures showed a photo of a sister hospital that did my echo cardiogram years ago.

Bingo!

[Widget Jr]

Has there been a change to HIPAA to allow this?

[bitt]

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