Forbes March 2, 2020
Aaron Patzer

Recently, the CEO of Epic, the largest electronic health records (EHR) company in the U.S., urged all of Epic’s customers to oppose a new government proposal making it easier to share data between hospitals. Her stated reasoning? Concerns about patient privacy.

As the founder of Mint.com, I saw the same message from many in the banking system claiming that it was too risky to pull all of your savings, credit cards, loans and investment data into a third-party system. Instead, they wanted us to move all of our accounts to their single institutions for safekeeping. These big banks omitted the fact that it was possible to find better rates elsewhere and that once you became their customer, they would charge...

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