At-Home Clinical Trials for the Homebound

Jake, I'm probably missing your point....unless you mean for people currently afflicted with this or that.....? To me that genetic data will be heaven sent to many in the future and a possible goldmine for Gene DX......Thanks, Ma

"But they aggregate data that can be used to target potential drugs, treatments, or as this post points out developing a rolodex of patients who may be interested in a trial."    MY QUESTION, can such data legally be used to target market?
I think, but am not sure, it falls under HIPPA. It would be different if I was researching bunions on some  WebMD type site and .....that info were sold to bunion researchers. I think the person researching bunions might be relinquishing HIPPA protection.

Have at it:
www.hollandhart.com/showpublication.aspx?Show=36499

 Thus, HIPAA identifies two exceptions in which the business associate may use PHI for its own purposes without the patient’s authorization: (1) to perform data aggregation services, and (2) for the business associate’s own management and administration. (65 F.R. 82505-06).

The Data Aggregation Exception.

Data aggregation means, with respect to protected health information created or received by a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of a covered entity, the combining of such protected health information by the business associate with the protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity, to permit data analyses that relate to the health care operations of the respective covered entities.

(45 C.F.R. § 164.501, emphasis added). Per the regulation, the business associate may only aggregate the PHI for the healthcare operations of the covered entity, not for the business associate’s own purposes. HHS commentary explains the purpose and scope of the exception:

we permit a covered entity to authorize the business associate to provide data aggregation services to the covered entity. As discussed above in § 164.501, data aggregation, with respect to protected health information received by a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of a covered entity, is the combining of such protected health information by the business associate with protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity, to permit the creation of data for analyses that relate to the health care operations of the respective covered entities. We added this service to the business associate definition to clarify the ability of covered entities to contract with business associates to undertake quality assurance and comparative analyses that involve the protected health information of more than one contracting covered entity. We except data aggregation from the general requirement that a business associate contract may not authorize a business associate to use or further disclose protected health information in a manner that would violate the requirements of this subpart if done by the covered entity in order to permit the combining or aggregation of protected health information received in its capacity as a business associate of different covered entities when it is performing this service. In many cases, the combining of this information for the respective health care operations of the covered entities is not something that the covered entities could do—a covered entity cannot generally disclose protected health information to another covered entity for the disclosing covered entity’s health care operations. However, we permit covered entities that enter into business associate contracts with a business associate for data aggregation to permit the business associate to combine or aggregate the protected health information they disclose to the business associate for their respective health care operations.

You are suggesting it's OK to be deceitful to get what one wants individually? And use the law to do it?

Wait, I thought all of us Pigs were equal on this Animal Farm? Except some are more equal and deserving as others. Somehow, I suspect if one was deceitful about their vaccination status to avoid getting one, you would not be so happy. Even if they had valid medical reasons for doing so, similar to your friends.

In this case, it appears the world moves increasingly towards Do as I say, not as I do. Morality erodes. Which is why nobody but the individual and their doctor should be involved with getting a jab or not...because rules just create a way for those who want to bend morality to find their way around them.

Perhaps, if the government did not mandate anything and allowed free choice based on one's personal risk profile to receive a vaccine there would be plenty of available boosters for the compromised. But no...we rushed out with a campaign to stick everyone regardless if they wanted or needed it and doing so ignored the breakthrough risk, variant risk, and how it might affect those that REALLY NEED a vaccine.

But nope, I am just an idiot country bumpkin, what can I know or offer.

Au contraire, I guess we have different values. I believe the right of the inviduals trumps what the government can and cannot do to someone. I would say that is very big picture, such as a belief that is worth dying for in many cases. And many have died for that idea. 

Advocating for heavy government involvement in something while at the same time being happy that someone gets to "get around the system" for their personal gain is 1. A hallmark of Socialism and 2. creating the very mistrust and problems we deal with today.

But with that kind of statement, you are "talking down" to someone which is somewhat expected.

And then there's dying as a side effect of the "Vaccinated"

 Friend X-Marine great shape died of Acute Renal Failure after the second Pfizer shot.