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by kevinmchugh 877 days ago
They do have pharmacies. I'm sure they have a lot of people who do all their shopping there.
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dymk 877 days ago
That’s a big hipaa violation.
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mc32 877 days ago
No, but it's probably a HIPAA violation.
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kevinmchugh 877 days ago
They also probably have a pretty good model of what weight loss looks like absent semaglutide. The semaglutide patients probably have a different set of purchasing behaviors from dieters and LAP band surgery patients.
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whycome 877 days ago
Not if just looking at correlation.
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dymk 877 days ago
Incorrect
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voisin 877 days ago
You can’t anonymize the data first?
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dymk 877 days ago
Nope, it’s not like A/B testing a button color on an ad; it’s medical history
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NerdiDotOrg 877 days ago
You can anonymize data. If it's not able to identify the real person, it's allowed.
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alistairSH 877 days ago
It’s HIPAA.
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