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by DanBC 3625 days ago
> Third, there's a huge difference between the appropriate levels of security around individual patients' medical histories, a single doctors office worth of patients' data, and then the collective medical histories for every single patient in the nation.

Hang on: If you're extracting an individual's medical data and putting that on a USB stick you better make sure it's encrypted, and that there are audit trails in place for who extracted the data, when, and why, and where they put it.