As we are talking anecdotes. Universities I’ve been at that researched sensitive data like human genetics and some commercially sensitive data have been excellent at data security, and provided a centralised HPC cluster at a marginal cost than it would have been at AWS..
While hospital records are protected, traditionally genomics data is not considered PII so is not covered by HIPAA. It does seem a bit of a farce though considering it could be uploaded to GEDmatch and have a good chance of finding relations of person the sample was taken from...
