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Health privacy laws must be updated, US FTC Commissioner Bedoya says in statement on Amazon, One Medical deal closure

( February 27, 2023, 23:44 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act doesn't adequately protect the privacy of medical data such as that acquired by Amazon in its acquisition of One Medical, US Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya wrote in a statement joined by Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter today.* Bedoya reminded Congress and other legislators that US health privacy laws are "aging and incomplete," and urged them to act to update them. For example, Amazon can use any health data it obtained from the One Medical merger in compliance with HIPAA as long as it removes certain identifying information....

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