HIPAA permits the handing out of your medical data
HIPAA: Acronym that stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a US law designed to provide privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
Developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, these new standards provide patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health information is used and disclosed.
They represent a uniform, federal floor of privacy protections for consumers across the country. State laws providing additional protections to consumers are not affected by this new rule. HIPAA took effect on April 14, 2003.
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ostensibly anonymous patient data in the name of developing algorithms to further enrich their coffers — and we do not even have the ability to "opt out" or even complain about it because nobody really cares what we think of this betrayal of our privacy at the hands of the government.
Much like South Carolina legislature profiteering on drivers license data, the crooks we elect end up doing whatever they like with no one held accountable.
This is the crook ass way of the United States anymore. We need to rise up and end Microsoft, IBM, Google, Amazon, Facebook and the rest of the scoundrels populating the planet. They all should be terminated with extreme prejudice ... starting with the democrats.
Were "policies" a believable entity in these strange bedfellow arrangements things might be different. As it stands everyone involved is suspect. Particularly entities run as incompetently as the PRISMA healthcare system locally.
Sometimes there simply is no level to which a group won't stoop.
Buffoons, each and every one.