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Telling you uncomfortable truths isn’t a hipaa violation, as the law was not written to protect your feelings.

I mean...many uncomfortable truths ARE HIPAA violations. What makes it NOT a HIPAA violation is that it's just general/anonymized anecdata.

I can't go up to someone and be like "Alice Rosenstein has cervical cancer, sorry if that's an uncomfortable truth, but the law wasn't written to protect your feelings." That would, in fact, be a HIPAA violation.

There is a difference between saying, Mrs. Jones has a bad yeast infection and there are many yeast infections this time of year. The one is giving patient information the other is discussing the disease.

Yes...that's what I said. I said the thing that makes it not a HIPAA violation is the fact that it's general data.

Technically, that's only a HIPAA violation if you're a provider or are handling data given to you by a provider.

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