This is a frustrating conversation. It appears that anonymized data medical data are being sold en masse by providers (*) because money. But it's also obvious

This is a frustrating conversation. It appears that anonymized data medical data are being sold en masse by providers (*) because money. But it's also obvious to us tech folk how trivial it is to combine anonymized patient encounters with location and credit card purchase data etc to de-anonymize it and resell as enriched. So the only people who are effectively bound by HIPAA are the well-intentioned ones who have to protect themselves and and comply; the rest are laughing at them on the way to the bank. * https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/23/22547397/medical-records-health-data-hospitals-research https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/23/22547397/medical-records-... * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-data-brokers-make-money-off-your-medical-records/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-data-brokers-... * https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/who-profits-our-medical-records https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/who-profits-our-medica...