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January 8, 2013

Your Medical Data Is Not Secure

Michael Kassner, TechRepublic


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With the push to move Electronic Health Records (EHR) “into the cloud,” and my recent article about “the cloud” being vulnerable, I was curious as to what extent the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects our privacy. To start, I thought it best to define what is considered sensitive health-care information.

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