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The clues are a bit earlier in the article and the full name of HIPAA > The financial trajectory of MarketScan was perhaps unimaginable in 1981, when a former

The clues are a bit earlier in the article and the full name of HIPAA > The financial trajectory of MarketScan was perhaps unimaginable in 1981, when a former insurance executive named Ernie Ludy founded the company. His idea was to simply collect patients’ data and parcel it out to big companies that were seeking to control costs by getting a more granular view of their employees’ health care use. > The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

hedora 5y ago
Ahh, thanks. Should have kept reading. However, a paragraph or so later, it says HIPAA doesn't apply to de-indetified data, and that it's easy for researchers to buy the data set. Hopefully, some security researchers will get their hands on it, de-anonymize the data set, and then regulators will burn the industry to the ground.
- nerdponx 5y ago
  Or it will just keep on going with the HIPAA fig leaf like before. See also: credit rating agencies, ad targeting.
- ghaff 5y ago
  >HIPAA doesn't apply to de-indetified data Although I'd point out that very little is needed to un-deidentify medical records if you want to. For example, see some of the work Latanya Sweeney has done. http://latanyasweeney.org/ http://latanyasweeney.org/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-liv...
- kapuasuite 5y ago
  > Hopefully, some security researchers will get their hands on it, de-anonymize the data set, and then regulators will burn the industry to the ground. Who does this benefit, though?
zitterbewegung 5y ago
Wow, this person had a Data Science company in 1981 that was actually profitable.
- nexuist 5y ago
  Computer science evolves in a circle. Analyzing data for meteorological predictions was one of the first uses of a digital computer; it just wasn't hip at the time and involved 0 pandas.
  - rubatuga 5y ago
    > import tensorflow as tf
- brilee 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO how about 1956?

hedora 5y ago

Ahh, thanks. Should have kept reading. However, a paragraph or so later, it says HIPAA doesn't apply to de-indetified data, and that it's easy for researchers to buy the data set. Hopefully, some security researchers will get their hands on it, de-anonymize the data set, and then regulators will burn the industry to the ground.

nerdponx 5y ago
Or it will just keep on going with the HIPAA fig leaf like before. See also: credit rating agencies, ad targeting.
ghaff 5y ago
>HIPAA doesn't apply to de-indetified data Although I'd point out that very little is needed to un-deidentify medical records if you want to. For example, see some of the work Latanya Sweeney has done. http://latanyasweeney.org/ http://latanyasweeney.org/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-liv...
kapuasuite 5y ago
> Hopefully, some security researchers will get their hands on it, de-anonymize the data set, and then regulators will burn the industry to the ground. Who does this benefit, though?

zitterbewegung 5y ago

Wow, this person had a Data Science company in 1981 that was actually profitable.

nexuist 5y ago
Computer science evolves in a circle. Analyzing data for meteorological predictions was one of the first uses of a digital computer; it just wasn't hip at the time and involved 0 pandas.
- rubatuga 5y ago
  > import tensorflow as tf
brilee 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO how about 1956?