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They would be allowed to ask questions about your medical history, but medical records themselves are an absolute no go.
Reason being that in our group we have a ton of normalization code that looks exactly like the 'bad' example from this post. As we use relatively large datasets (4D MRI images), memory is a bit scarce...
From the perspective of Eindhoven, they sure were a net gain. For the rest of the world, they sure are in a lot of cartels. But the tens of thousands of people working for Philips-related companies won’t care (ASML, NXP, Signify, Etos, FEI, TP Vision, are just some examples of the Philips legacy that is still felt all across the Eindhoven region)l
A 14 year old girl started the same program around 2006, she did do the full, regular coursework.
In The Netherlands, healthcare is billed according to a"diagnosis-threatment combination" (DBC, diagnose-behandel combinatie in Dutch), which is a government-mandated set of billing codes. Each code covers the whole diagnosis/threatment pipeline, for example "uncomplicated total knee replacement" which covers imaging, surgery, and a few days of revalidation until you leave the hospital. As these codes are standardized, it is relatively easy to know in advance what it's going to cost the insurance company.
The codes are sort of overlapping, for example a breast MRI has it's own code (usually 270eu, but with outliers both ways), but there's also a code for the combination of a mammography, breast MRI + lumpectomy.
Hospitals are nowadays obliged to publish these pricelists, even though insurance is mandatory etc., after some court cases involving uninsured people not knowing costs in advanced. Just having these lists could work wonders in terms of transparency.
It's also very popular for group chats, for which Instagram has no alternative and WhatsApp doesn't have the perceived privacy that Snapchat has.
Unfortunately I don't have any numbers to back this, just my perception.