KevinMD April 27, 2023
After all the hours spent in HIPAA training over the years, physicians and other health care workers might think of HIPAA as a powerful regulation. It’s true that HIPAA does require health care workers to follow a number of rules, with pretty harsh penalties for violations. But from a patient’s perspective, how well does U.S. law protect overall health information privacy? Unfortunately, not very well, and things are getting worse.
The privacy provisions of HIPAA were enacted in 2002. Back then, most individuals’ health care data still took the form of paper-based medical records maintained by hospitals and clinics. Artificial intelligence and large-scale “Big data” analytic techniques had yet to emerge in their modern forms. Surveillance capitalism, the business model...
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