Two companies I'd absolutely not want within miles of my health records.
Put all the data in one place and make it easy to access and LEOs are going to treat it the same way they do their other data sources - abuse it up to the point they can get away with. It happens every single time.
"abuse it up to the point they can get away with."
And I guarantee anything that would happen in the cloud is already happening.
Then you should be much more careful about what you choose to guarantee, because you'd be wrong, and that heavily devalues your "guarantees".
Many of the abuses described in the article below are simply not possible when data is distributed amongst many actors. And many of the targeted abuses would never have happened without easy access to these databases.
https://apnews.com/article/699236946e3140659fff8a2362e16f43
It simply comes down this this: make data more available, and it will be used more. In theory, it is possible to build audited systems that, combined with oversight, could solve a lot of this. But in practice, audit trails are frequently never built, oversight ranges from powerless to nonexistent, and the extreme deference cops get in this country means this stuff is rarely investigated and results in wrist slaps when it is.
Please, do show me how I'm wrong.
HIPAA allows the disclosure of some health information without a warrant. There are plenty of abuses that happen today. Would centralizing increase those? Sure. But they are already happening. And again, I don't see whether these are truly centralized like a DB, or if they're independently on the cloud (or perhaps you didn't answer that because you're trolling).
You don't get to accuse me of trolling when you're being intentionally unresponsive and obtuse. Just another username I'm not going to waste time on in the future.