In seven (7) pages. Please respond to the following:
- How do companies like 23andMe leverage the holes in HIPAA and GINA?
- What would you change in those pieces of legislation to make genetic information more secure?
- Support your argument with at least 3 peer-reviewed references.
Use the references below and 3 peer-reviewed references(5 years or less) for a total of 8 references.
Textbook: Laurie A. Rinehart-Thompson, (2023). Introduction to Health Information Privacy & Security (3rd Edition). AHIMA ISBN 9781584269236
Readings:
Belani, S., Tiarks, G. C., Mookerjee, N., & Rajput, V. (2021). I agree to disagree”: Comparative ethical and legal analysis of big data and genomics for privacy, consent, and ownership. Cureus, 13(10), e18736.
Evans, B. J. (2018). HIPAA’s individual right of access to genomic data: Reconciling safety and civil rights. American Journal of Human Genetics, 102(1), 5-10.
Suter SM: GINA at 10 years: The battle over ‘genetic information’ continues in court. Journal of Law and Bioscience. 2018, 5:495-526.
Wolf, L. E., Hammack, C. M., Brown, E. F., Brelsford, K. M., & Beskow, L. M. (2020). Protecting participants in genomic research: Understanding the “web of protections” afforded by federal and state law. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 48(1), 126-141.

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