IANAL but I think HIPAA:
1. Only applies to covered entities.
2. Data can be given to another covered entity as long as certain rules are followed.
Very easy to have a web of people giving each other data because of this.
1. Only applies to covered entities.
2. Data can be given to another covered entity as long as certain rules are followed.
Very easy to have a web of people giving each other data because of this.
In net - hipaa doesn’t protect medical information generally - only the subset that’s usually visible to doctors. And even then, it stops working as soon as the info is outside a covered entity.