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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Hospitals Give Tech Giants Access to Detailed Medical Records

Hospitals have granted Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. the ability to access identifiable patient information under deals to crunch millions of health records, the latest examples of hospitals’ growing influence in the data economy.

This breadth of access wasn’t always spelled out by hospitals and tech giants when the deals were struck.

The scope of data sharing in these and other recently reported agreements reveals a powerful new role that hospitals play—as brokers to technology companies racing into the $3 trillion health-care sector. Rapid digitization of health records in recent years and privacy laws enabling companies to swap patient data have positioned hospitals as a primary arbiter of how such sensitive data is shared.

“Hospitals are massive containers of patient data,” said Lisa Bari, a consultant and former lead for health information technology for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center.

Hospitals can share patient data as long as they follow federal privacy laws, which contain limited consumer protections, she said.

“The data belongs to whoever has it.”

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6 comments:

  1. What privacy laws?

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  2. You only get privacy if you receive food stamps. Not just anyone will be able to walk in and demand privacy.

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  3. What is HIPPA? Thanks to Obamacare there is no HIPPA. They can kill you now and you can do nothing about it.

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  4. ALL part of NSA / CIA mandates from OBAMA !!! Waaaaa

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  5. And you have to buy your own data ,WTF

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  6. Here's some truth you probably don't know (but should keep in mind while reading this article).

    A 25 year registered nurse with a dozen awards for exemplary service at Peninsula Regional Torture Chamber can (and WILL) be summarily fired and lose any and all benefits for allowing another patient to hear ANY medical details concerning another patient.
    Straight fact.

    Two Sets of Laws allow these rich elites to sell YOUR complete medical history to total strangers and what happens??

    They buy another vacation home in Hawaii.

    "We, the people" lose EVERYTHING.

    And you can't stop cheering.

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