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Why is this not a HIPAA violation? HIPAA is a US law that's focused on protecting the privacy of a person's medical history. In SQL terms you can't JOIN a pers
by twunde 6y ago
Why is this not a HIPAA violation?
HIPAA is a US law that's focused on protecting the privacy of a person's medical history. In SQL terms you can't JOIN a person's identity with their medical history (unless explicitly authorized). However aggregated data is allowed, as long as it can't be easily reverse-engineered.
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- sonotathrowaway 6y agoYou acknowledge that HIPAA doesn’t allow identifying specific patients. Are you under the impression that she named a identified a specific person in that article?
- twunde 6y agoSorry, I should have edited. This is why the article is NOT a HIPAA violation. Damn you slack distractions