once you choose to share that information, you may be giving up your access or protection under these hipaaause now employers and insurers have access to this information. >> i know there are some psychologists and psychiatries who treat an -- anorexics and this could enable that disease. >> i think if you look at the population in general, we know that for the most part americans are overweight and don't exercise enough. so the whole idea that you can change instant gratification in health, now you are making health instantly gratifying by having these products, you do capture maybe a larger segment of the population who would benefit, but again, most americans are overweight, most americans don't exercise enough, and so it has the potential to help more people than it would to harm. >> jamie success stories of people using these? >> yeah, i think like janet said earlier, it really depends on the individual. i know some people who this was their motivation to work out. and it has been their number one motivation still to this day. it's a good way to connect with people. it's a signal for p

, and hipaa protects your employer from knowing about your wait and s-- sexual activity an all sortsher juicy bits that they might like to know about you, so once you choose to share that information, you may be giving up your protection under these hipaa laws. >> janet there are a few more serious aspects to this conversation. i know there are some psychologists and psychiatrists who treat anorexics who think this could be enabling to that disease. what do you think about that? >> i think if you don't think about these for just one segment of the population. for the most part americans don't exercise enough. so the whole idea that you can turn instant gratification into health, and usually instant gratification is having us do unhealthy things, and now you do capture maybe a larger segment of the population who would benefit. at the same time there are people who may have maladaptive behavior, and this may fuel this. but most americans are overweight, don't exercise enough, so it has the potential to help more people than it would to harm. >> jamie success stories? >> yeah, i think

right to give consent for your information could be disclosed or shared and that was taken out of the hipaa privacy rules. the media did not report it and congress did not notice and the public is not about to read 2000 pages of dense legislative language. nobody knew but those of us who work with people who have sensitive conditions, we were all over that. the first thing that has to happen is your right of consent, your right to control who sees your health information needs to be restored in hipaa. we have strong constitutional rights to privacy and control over our health information. but the technology industry has not paid attention. hospitals, the pharmacies, the electronic health record vendors , health technology vendors -- all of them use and share our information in ways that we would never agree with. host: from your website, patient you sayhe writes.org, who can use an see your health records, over 4 million businesses including employers, government agencies, insurance companies, billing firms, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, marketing firms and data miner

. >> we've heard so much about hipaa, did he violate any rules or regulations or laws?> he probably did not. there needs to be more information coming up. i don't know that he even knew the names of the people that were coming up. but just aggregate costs of situations. we don't know what he knew. certainly if information was given to him for inappropriate reasons or information he shouldn't have, that could violate the laws. but the laws are very accusing in thiconfusing in this area. this was a situation where i think the sort of pr aspects became much more of a problem than pure legality of the situation. >> there's no question, he had a pr problem. but back to hipaa just a second, if you have thousands of employees, if you announce that there are women who have just had beabd who cost the company -- babies who cost the company i guess a couple million dollars it seems to me that might be pretty easy to figure out. >> absolutely. so that's one of the questions that you'd have to go through but it also depends where the information is coming from in the first place. a

this is called hipaa.his protects your employer from knowing information about your weight, sexual activity and other juicy details that they would like to know and your insurance company also would like to know with you. you have to be careful with the forecast you choose, you may be ghifg up your accessing or your for example under the hip aa information. others like employers can get access to this information. >> psychologists or psychiatrists who treat anorexics feel that this information can enable this disease. what do you think about that? >> if you look at the population in general, we know for the most part americans are overweight and don't exercise enough. so the whole idea you can turn instant gratification and health, usually, instant gratification helps us do unillegality things. at the same time, there are people who have maladaptive behavior and this may fuel this. but again, most americans are overweight, most americans don't exercise enough and so it has a spoacial to help more people th

. >> under the health insurance aired ability or abilitibility act hipaa, companies can see your information, but there are limit. only a handful of trained staff can see the details, and there's a fire wall to keep the rest of the firm - like your boss - seeing the rest of your information. data that could identify individual employees must be deleted. >> it's good in theory. companies are not supposed to use your medal information for job-related purposes. if you are determined to keep personal health information private, you better have deep products. >> you can demand that the health care provider not sent information on to the health planner, insurer or employer. the trick is you have to pay in full at the time. treatment. >> now, pam dixon told us many complaints they received were in relation to health and fairness plans, it's legal for employers to tell employees to take part in a welfare program, like quitting smoking. employers can monitor whether employees are meeting the goals of the wellness program. on twitter and facebook i asked do you worry about your employer having access

data is often shared via unencrypted networks exposing sensitive data and it is not protected under hipaaleaving your information up for sale to the highest bidder. >> there is the use of the data today and then there is what happens potentially in the future. >> currently the data is primarily sold at advertisers anding ing a re-- but imagine googling your name and finding your weight or worse. and what if potential employers had access to your blood pressure and cholesterol. sound farfetched? employers were checking credit scores a few years ago. >> four flights of stairs gone. >> she says she is not concerned. for her, the benefits out weigh the risk. and she is careful, choosing paid apps over freebies, limiting the information she provides and assuming anything she does share probably won't remain private. >> it doesn't have any information that i don't give. so i am not unduly concerned. >> paid apps generally have better privacy policies than those free app, but you want to read them carefully and assume any information you provide is being shared. remember f you have a consumer pr

theoretically that would be hipaa violation. >> bb tim armstrong is not the best benefits manager brett fight is any company in a position to be so critical of health care? going back to world war ii price regulations this is the fundamental cause some courage words but government involvement under health care. ups, a target, a university of virginia, companies have said health costs are going up specifically because of obamacare. >> then why not say health care costs are going up? we have to offset with 401k. we have to make a business case decisions. >> i am not certain he can tie all these to obamacare. for the last few years while health care premiums have been going down for aiddle businesses they are going up or stay the sam said you have a variety of cost related to obamacare like a preventative care or things that are good for employees long term. we have to let this shakeout gerri: i hear that but i agree obamacare cost are out of control absolutely. tim armstrong has foot in mouth syndrome like i have never seen. here he calls on the employee's he will fire in the conference c

right to give consent for your information could be disclosed or shared and that was taken out of the hipaa privacy rules. the media did not report it and congress did not notice and the public is not about to read 2000 pages of dense legislative language. nobody knew but those of us who work with people who have sensitive conditions, we were all over that. the first thing that has to happen is your right of consent, your right to control who sees your health information needs to be restored in hipaa. we have strong constitutional rights to privacy and control over our health information. but the technology industry has not paid attention. hospitals, the pharmacies, the electronic health record vendors , health technology vendors -- all of them use and share our information in ways that we would never agree with. host: from your website, patient you sayhe writes.org, who can use an see your health records, over 4 million businesses including employers, government agencies, insurance companies, billing firms, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, marketing firms and data miner

>> that is right hipaa deals with confidentiality.e kind of put two and two together to realize who they are. now, if they did they will go to the department of health and human services and make a complaint. gerri: let me stop you there. a company with 5400 workers, there are workers who know those women are by virtue of the facts. they may well have known that they had problem pregnancies. >> exactly. gerri: he may not have said the namebut he sure pointed to it. >> unfortunately they did have a claim you can't just go running into court. you have to go to the government agency and even before the affordable care act, you can't be interfered with your employment status. gerri: it makes me think that these two women have lifetime guarantee that aol. because the ceo added them. gerri: exactly. >> someone may not be performing up to par and they also have health issues themselves and so they may mean that that is the reason they are getting rid of the person we's health insurance. so this is something like watching sausage made. and th

people from firing individuals, discriminating against them because of health information, there are hipaads that are supposed to keep things private. is there anything that a patient can do to keep their medical records from an employer? >> no. that's why it's really important that people should learn what's going on. you can sign up on our website, patientprivacyrights to find out what is going on. you should sign your petition that your data not be exchanged without your consent and you can tell us your story. it's very important that we fight back. >> and companies will argue that they are paying for the health insurance. they are paying for these procedures. >> no. >> and they, therefore, might have a legitimate reason if they are self-insured, if it's a self-insured employer. is that a fair argument at all? >> no. we pay. the employees pay. they don't pay. it's true that self-insured employers do have a right to look at the information but they shouldn't. there are companies like ibm that are self-insured that refuse to look at their employees' health records. it can be done in a bet

there these privacy laws and hipaa laws.th information and we don't know the identities of the individuals. he department name them. we don't have the social security number and what is typically identifiable information. is there a reasonable basis? i don't know. is there a basis that they say we are the only two women that gave birth that year. everybody knew who he was talking about. if you talk about that, then maybe he is in a little bit of trouble with those two ladies. >> tim armstrong, i would love to talk to you. sunny hostin, president obamay harlow. thank you very much. >> justin bieber. the eggs, the drag racing and the pot plane and now this. not a care in the world or so it seems. kicking it with pals as prosecutors figure out whether bieber should face felony charges. look at that. [ male announcer ] this is the story of the little room over the pizza place on chestnut street the modest first floor bedroom in tallinn, estonia and the southbound bus barreling down i-95. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of wh

right to give consent for your information could be disclosed or shared and that was taken out of the hipaaprivacy rules. the media did not report it and congress did not notice and the public is not about to read 2000 pages of dense legislative language. nobody knew but those of us who work with people who have sensitive conditions, we were all over that. the first thing that has to happen is your right of consent, your right to control who sees your health information needs to be restored in hipaa. we have strong constitutional rights to privacy and control over our health information. but the technology industry has not paid attention. hospitals, the pharmacies, the electronic health record vendors , health technology vendors -- all of them use and share our information in ways that we would never agree with. host: from your website, patient you sayhe writes.org, who can use an see your health records, over 4 million businesses including employers, government agencies, insurance companies, billing firms, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, marketing firms and data miners

generalities because we never believe them when they say -- >> there's a question of whether this was a hipaaspent a million dollars on your child. there are all types of concerns, not to mention the idea of it's so offensive, putting these families on the spot when they've been through enough. >> the writers at huffington post with their kid gloves, the ceo tim armstrong, when in other situations it's full bore, these scum bag ceos doing this and that. we'll see. >> maybe it's possible they'll are a column like this. >> the market is off to a volatile start this year. that's not spooking the carlyle group. the company made three acquisitions since january. carl youngkin. p/e firms usually have to buy low and sell high. are you getting out of something, hoping it's a good position to be in? or there may not be opportunities because everything is bid up. what do people like you want? right in the middle, not too hot, not too cold? you can buy good things and sell things you bought five years ago? >> absolutely. we find today's market to be a really good market for private equity. last year was