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Three important features had to be ignored in order to make this article a sell to the editor: 1) all the quoted sources, except the Harvard professor (whose interest is academic,) have a vested interest in selling services to hospitals because of this regulatory environment blessed upon us by Al Gore (the HIPAA administrators in the slashdot discussion, for example, present a much more balanced view.) 2) Measures and error for amounts of violated privacy is complicated because legislation assumes there is vice among medical providers to ignore your personal interest which is why that vice needs to be regulated. In other words, how much did the medical industry drunkenly violate your privacy until prohibition solved their alcoholic transgressions? 3) The server administrators do hit the nail on the head (anyone with their expertise or experience was notably absent from the article,) and yet the machinery cannot completely control one lowly employee, getting paid minimum wage, with access necessary to schedule or bill services, spending their time recording personal information and selling it on a black market.