posted 14 years ago
HIPPA is the Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act. It's original intent was to make sharing health care information easier between hospitals, insurance companies and so forth. There was a section on privacy which ultimately overshadowed the rest.
The basic principle is that you have to take certain precautions to protect the privacy of a patient's protected information.
The problem I see with 'the cloud' is that you can't really control what the other computers will do with the data. I'm not saying there ISN'T such an application, but I think there would be some rather significant obstacles.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors