de-identified is the key word here. That's how they attained the data in a HIPAA compliant way.
Yes there are problems with combining that data with other datasets to re-identify. Google would be in a rather good place to do that.
Yes there are problems with combining that data with other datasets to re-identify. Google would be in a rather good place to do that.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/re-identification-possible-with...