Re:Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records ...
by prepend on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:54PM
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It might matter if iCloud is breached (ie, their encryption is cracked).
But since HIPAA doesn’t apply to what patients do with their own data that is not as applicable. For example, if I add my medical record to Dropbox and it gets hacked, that isn’t a hipaa issue. But if my doctor puts my medical record in Dropbox and it gets hacked it is and either my doc or Dropbox have to handle the breach notification per hipaa.
But since HIPAA doesn’t apply to what patients do with their own data that is not as applicable. For example, if I add my medical record to Dropbox and it gets hacked, that isn’t a hipaa issue. But if my doctor puts my medical record in Dropbox and it gets hacked it is and either my doc or Dropbox have to handle the breach notification per hipaa.