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Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data

August 13, 2019 / Comments Off on Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data

goldilocks + porridge“…the average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors”
—McKinsey analysis

The McKinsey “2,750 times” statistic is a pretty good proxy for the amount of your personal health data that is NOT protected by HIPAA and currently is broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties.

Read the rest of our article on The Health Care Blog. It’s part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?”.

 

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