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To become an Amazon Clinic patient, first you sign away some privacy,You agreed to what? The ‘HIPAA authorization’ for Amazon’s new low-cost clinic offers the tech giant more control over your health (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lem.clinicians-exchange.org/post/24603

Signing away most all of your medical privacy rights in order to become a customer is way uncool and unacceptable:

https://wapo.st/3p1uTJG

To become an Amazon Clinic patient, first you sign away some privacy
You agreed to what? The ‘HIPAA authorization’ for Amazon’s new low-cost clinic offers the tech giant more control over your health data.
https://wapo.st/3p1uTJG

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait - the what?

Amazon Clinic sounds like something from Idiocracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it’s right across the street from the Costco med school

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was hoping it's a joke but nope, totally real: https://clinic.amazon.com/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m particularly concerned at how much of what they’re offering seems to be gynecology. That requires extra privacy not less

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Prime users can opt out of automatic sharing of biometric and health data with state authorities”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Wow. I am not surprised as it seems Amazon and other mega-corporations are trying to get their hands into anything that could turn a profit by preying on consumer information. It is sad that American healthcare has come to this.