Argh. The amount of headache we must go through to lock down this information is ridiculous compared to the risk. While this might be an issue for Bill Clinton

Argh. The amount of headache we must go through to lock down this information is ridiculous compared to the risk. While this might be an issue for Bill Clinton or Kanye West, the vast majority of people won't be terribly adversely affected by breaches of their medical records. A much better solution than encrypting every byte of data and vainly trying to secure the impossible (to say nothing of purposely corrupting the data) is just step up enforcement: punish people who leak, sell, and buy private health information more assiduously. Data breaches will happen; the social contract is our best defense against them.