Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market

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When patients visit a physician or hospital, they know that anyone involved in providing their health care can lawfully access their medical records. But unknown to patients, an increasing number of outside vendors that manage electronic health records also have access to that data, and are reselling the information as a commodity. The revelation comes in a recent New York Times article about how so-called “scrubbed” patient data isn’t as anonymous as people think .