Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Rule

In seven (7) pages. Please respond to the following:

  1. How do companies like 23andMe leverage the holes in HIPAA and GINA?
  2. What would you change in those pieces of legislation to make genetic information more secure?
  3. 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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