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Re:HIPAA’s New Rules Reach Far Beyond Healthcare Providers by NittLion78 on Friday February 01, 2013 @11:11AM (#5151525)
To be fair, re: the financial data, most institutions are required by SEC/FINRA to determine your net worth/assets at the time of application. So, to some degree, it makes sense you have to fill it out every time.

There's no reason it has to be on paper, though...

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Re:HIPAA’s New Rules Reach Far Beyond Healthcare Providers by rsobers on Friday February 01, 2013 @11:27AM (#5151654)
More to the point: what happens to that mound of sensitive data? Does it sit in a filing cabinet? If it's digital, does my underwriter forward it to her Gmail account so she can do the review on her couch?
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Re:HIPAA’s New Rules Reach Far Beyond Healthcare Providers by DannyBee on Friday February 01, 2013 @12:30PM (#5152074)
Having just bought a house in the past month, i'm going to say that they fax it around 5 or 6 times, then they forward that to their gmail account.

That way it looks like crap by the time it gets back to you.

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