I think the level of effort we make as a society on medical privacy is backwards. All health information should be public except in extreme circumstances. Right

I think the level of effort we make as a society on medical privacy is backwards. All health information should be public except in extreme circumstances. Right now, it's almost impossible to get datasets on health data. Imagine if 100% of everyone's data was digitized. The amount of health innovation, lives saved, cures found, is likely to be incredibly large. All the costs that go into trying to comply with HIPPA, could be gone. I get that some people want to prevent the use of the data for discrimination...just legislate that then.