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> What exactly is HIPAA’s role here? With or without HIPAA, medical institutions don’t want to share their data, especially not the ones with good data because
by chimeracoder 3y ago
> What exactly is HIPAA’s role here? With or without HIPAA, medical institutions don’t want to share their data, especially not the ones with good data because they do their own research.
I agree that OP's thesis doesn't make much sense.
HIPAA provides a legal framework for institutions to share data without liability[0]. It doesn't apply at all to non-"institutional" actors (in the way that OP seems to be using the word "institutional").
HIPAA is an extra cost for the big players, but there's little, if anything, that it prevents them from doing which they would otherwise want to do.
[0] More precisely, it provides a framework for capping liability exposure for institutions
- spondylosaurus 3y agoAs a rule of thumb, I find it's usually safe to dismiss criticism of HIPAA from anyone who misspells it as HIPPA. Not knowing that it's an acronym for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (emphasis on portability there, as you pointed out!) tends to be a sign that you don't know what the hell HIPAA is or is for. "HIPPA," on the other hand, is an ever-convenient boogeyman you can invoke in all kinds of situations.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoBeing pedantic. Calling people out on HIPAA/HIPPA is like the warn out slight-of-hand trick you pull at a party and everyone pretends to laugh. I've never seen anyone who actually understands HIPAA get caught up on this. It's a common typo/misspelling.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoYou'd think it's a common typo, but I have literally only ever seen it spelled as "HIPPA" by people trying to use HIPAA as a punching bag for whatever happens to be their current pet issue. And those people almost always misspell it. The number of anti-vaxxers citing "HIPPA" as the reason why the local concert hall was trampling on their civil rights by asking to see proof of vaccination was... extremely high.
- pyuser583 3y agoI worked in health insurance for years before I got it right.