ChrisSut (7/25/2014)
>>>Why do the different databases need to be in two different countries?This is a legal requirement, we cannot keep health records of US citizens in Canada or health records of Canadians in USA.
I have seen non-US clients require that their data be stored outside of the US to prevent it from being subject to the Patriot Act.
In practice, I doubt that would help if the entity hosting the data is a US company. They would simply turnover the data stored on the foreign servers if they were presented with a search warrant.