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		reificator on Oct 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired? I don't work with HIPAA but with other compliance/regulations NOT using version control is the problem. Unless you have patient information hardcoded into the source code for god knows what reason...

marrone12 on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

Things that might be hardcoded are access keys and passwords to PII databases.

rovr138 on Oct 3, 2019 | | [–]

Which is bad practice for lots of reasons and, is that a HIPAA violation? Your code also has it then.

Hosting git externally might be an issue though.

all_usernames on Oct 3, 2019 | | [–]

No. No no no no no.

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