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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6172971" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Here's the potential problem:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Google may be using the data it gleaned from emails to target ads to the email users. If they are, that is a potential violation of HIPPA...even if it is completely automated. In a very real & legal sense, Google IS sharing your data with someone else.</p><p></p><p>Even though its a bunch of computer programs talking to each other, its your personal information being used without your permission for other than its intended purpose by organizations not within the boundaries of the doctor/patient privilege. They are using the data for targeting ads to you (the patient) and to the doctors who share that data between themselves.</p><p></p><p>And legally, corporations are "people." When Google's computers talk to Glaxo Smith-Kline's to target drug ads to you and your doc based on your patient data, that means a "person" has disclosed your data to another "person" for commercial purposes.</p><p></p><p>That is almost a textbook case of violating your privileged communication. (It WILL be at some point after this all sorts out.) Pharma companies can't have reps in the room with you & your doc during an appointment to hawk their meds and procedures– that would be a clear violation. Allowing them to do essentially the same thing via targeted emails is, IMHO, every bit as violative of the privacy laws as the former. That it is automated should not be a shield from liability.</p><p></p><p>(Disclosure: even though its not my primary field, I have done some legal work for my father's medical practice.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6172971, member: 19675"] Here's the potential problem: Google may be using the data it gleaned from emails to target ads to the email users. If they are, that is a potential violation of HIPPA...even if it is completely automated. In a very real & legal sense, Google IS sharing your data with someone else. Even though its a bunch of computer programs talking to each other, its your personal information being used without your permission for other than its intended purpose by organizations not within the boundaries of the doctor/patient privilege. They are using the data for targeting ads to you (the patient) and to the doctors who share that data between themselves. And legally, corporations are "people." When Google's computers talk to Glaxo Smith-Kline's to target drug ads to you and your doc based on your patient data, that means a "person" has disclosed your data to another "person" for commercial purposes. That is almost a textbook case of violating your privileged communication. (It WILL be at some point after this all sorts out.) Pharma companies can't have reps in the room with you & your doc during an appointment to hawk their meds and procedures– that would be a clear violation. Allowing them to do essentially the same thing via targeted emails is, IMHO, every bit as violative of the privacy laws as the former. That it is automated should not be a shield from liability. (Disclosure: even though its not my primary field, I have done some legal work for my father's medical practice.) [/QUOTE]
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