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user-inactivated  ·  2424 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A story about regulation

    Had the data been anonymized by an entity capable of separating the hospital from the liability, there probably would have been a lot less drama.

That is where experiments conducted by the doctors get more difficult than experiments conducted by the techies; I'm not collecting any data, I just have to show I'm not taking indecent liberties with the data on servers I have root on. But I think you're getting more directly at the same point I was trying to, that HIPAA shouldn't be that much of an obstacle so long as you're respecting the patients' privacy.