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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by Spooky23 on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:41PM (#18829945)
Don’t worry, US medical practices will give you a big show about doing anything in the name of HIPPA.

Rest assured, it is a show, and most of your information is fed in real time to a half dozen different entities whom you have never heard of. The people who sell prescription data provide it to the pharma company before your insurer even gets the claim.

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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by IC4RUS on Saturday January 05, 2019 @08:27PM (#18835698)
Is the data anonymized when they send it? And is there anything I can read about this practice further? Not trying to challenge you, just curious.
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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by balfirevic on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:43AM (#18831353)
Is what they're doing illegal or is that behavior not prohibited by HIPPA?
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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by Spooky23 on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:55AM (#18831394)
It is legal. HIPPA protects you from chatty employees and gross incompetence.
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Re:How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless? by redbeard0x0a on Saturday January 05, 2019 @04:37PM (#18834436)
"Protects" you. It just gives some penalties to the companies for gross negligence, kind of like the GDPR is trying to do for all of personal data in the EU.
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