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And what is your recourse? There's no private cause of action for HIPAA violations.

Bingo. As a new ambulance chaser, I was having some real difficulty getting the medical records for a client - no response for weeks and weeks and weeks.

Aha! I thought. HIPAA gives them 30 days(sortof). We'll sue, and surely there's an attorney fee provision in there. Easy money. GOOGLE Wait what? No private cause of action! All I can do is file a complaint with HHS!

That said, depending on your state, you may be able to make some sort of colorable common-law claim.

> GOOGLE

Maybe ChatGPT would have given you a more favourable answer?

Seems unlikely since at it's absolute best it's merely synthesizing a mashup of the same information that feeds Google search, and that's assuming it doesn't start seeing shit. Better to go directly to the source so you can at least make an attempt at vetting the credentials/expertise level that went into the information you're viewing instead of guessing how many mommy blogs, spam mills, and reddit comments got sucked into the intake in the process of producing whatever ChatGPT just coughed up.

Going directly to the source did not provide a favourable answer. Did you somehow miss reading the thread before you replied?

K so given a situation where no credible information is available on the net a system that synthesizes information taken from the net is going to produce credible information through what mechanism exactly?

Why not just read the thread before replying?

Perhaps, but this was pre-transformers.

Finally someone uses the correct acronym

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