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Will the New PHR Gorillas Embrace HIPAA? Taking a cue from clinical research

In April, the WSJ’s Health Blog pointed to an article that asserted that Microsoft and Google were not ‘covered entities’ under the HIPAA patient-privacy law.  Something more interesting than the article itself (from the New England Journal of Medicine), a link in the comments lead to this post, which mentions that insurance company Aetna is [...]