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> Not everyone who who handles medical data is bound by it This is true, but not true of anyone working at One Medical, since health care providers are bound b
by yunwal 4y ago
> Not everyone who who handles medical data is bound by it
This is true, but not true of anyone working at One Medical, since health care providers are bound by HIPAA. If you tell your friend you have cancer, sure, they can legally share that info. If you tell your faith healer, or your employer, they can as well.
If you tell your PCP (or your PCPs app, or their secretary), and they share that with Andy Jassy without him being cleared to handle PHI, they're in for a mountain of fines.
As much as I like being cynical about surveillance capitalism, I don't think Amazon's primary motivation here is patient data, at least in the short-to-medium term. If they wanted the data, they'd buy, like, a vitamin company or something.
- JohnFen 4y ago> If they wanted the data, they'd buy, like, a vitamin company or something. This is a very good point. Nonetheless, I think that being cynical about anything Amazon is up to isn't unwarranted. My primary personal problem with this deal is that I do my best to avoid doing business with Amazon at all, and the more tendrils they spread, the more difficult this will be.
- yunwal 4y ago> Nonetheless, I think that being cynical about anything Amazon is up to isn't unwarranted. 100%. I still don’t think having the 21st century standard-bearer for anticompetitive practices move into healthcare is a good thing by any means.