Has anyone dealt with privacy coins and hipaa?

Dr.RenalNash said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.

One concrete data point for the thread. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.

sarah.morrison said:

The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

One thing that is still open after NauseaFreeNow’s answer:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

Closing the loop on my own question.

Resolved, and the thing that resolved it was the least interesting suggestion in the thread. Writing that down for the next person who wants the interesting answer.