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thaumasiotes | karma 22020 | avg karma 1.35 · 2022-08-29 20:38:29

Google, not being a provider of healthcare or health insurance, cannot violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

If Google deputized a VP to hunt you down and murder you in your sleep, that also would not violate HIPAA.

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ec109685 | karma 5793 | avg karma 1.8 · 2022-08-30 00:34:29

Also, the images uploaded to Google cloud were independent of sending the images to the doctor via his wife.

dekhn | karma 28741 | avg karma 2.63 · 2022-08-30 09:08:42

The (enterprise) cloud side of Google is a business associate (also covered in HIPAA) in some circumstances but I don't think that applies in this case.