The records being put into the cloud which already puts them at risk of hacking exposure but to google is collecting these records to build future Business Products how does that fit into hipaa laws. Well it does fit in the hipper laws and whats really interesting about this situation is the u. S. Government is investigating them but its a health and Human Services Civil Rights Division which is investigating them specifically to determine whether this information will be used to make insurance to terminations that is when you apply for an insurance policy will something that occurred in your background influence that decision now in my opinion what theyre building is what i call a life style index which is where they take your medical records and integrate it with all the other information google has ever collected upon you and determine whether youre a good Insurance Risk or not which is really going beyond what that information was meant for so not only is there a civil rights compo
Products how does that fit into hipaa laws. Well it does fit in the hipper laws and whats really interesting about this situation is the u. S. Government is investigating them but its a health and Human Services Civil Rights Division which is investigating them specifically to determine whether this information will be used to make insurance to terminations that is when you apply for an insurance policy will something that occurred in your background influence that decision now in my opinion what theyre building is what i call a life style index which is where they take your medical records and integrate it with all the other information google has ever collected upon you and determine whether youre a good Insurance Risk or not which is really going beyond what that information was meant for so not only is there a civil rights component to it but theres also a question of did it violate hipaa i say yes no one knew about this situation this project nightingale until a whistleblower with
Advanced Artificial Intelligence which will be used to prescribe treatment to doctors and for patients and remember this that over the past year no doctors or patients were told that their information was being handed over to google we have a lot to get to today so joining us here in the studio is the host of the news with Rick Sanchez Rick sanchez guy they have you here by the way hes also the founder of a managing care company in south florida that was recently listed as the Fastest Growing Health Care Company in america by magazine and from new york global regulatory attorney Myles Edwards and miles i want to actually begin with you here because the Regulatory Agency looking into this deal is considering whether or not hipaa laws have been broken now we know this that the feds have required that medical records be digitized but that is not whats happening here in fact all the records that google is obtaining are already digitized so one you have the issue of the records being put in