NHIN, privacy front and center at HIT policy meeting
October 28th, 2009
The head of federal efforts to boost the use of health information technology told members of an IT advisory panel Tuesday that...
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Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market
October 19th, 2009
When patients visit a physician or hospital, they know that anyone involved in providing their health care can lawfully see their medical...
The Word Is Out: Do You Know Who Owns Your Health Records?
October 19th, 2009
This WIRED article, Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market, is based on yesterday’s NYTimes story that...
Think info about your Rx is private? Better think again
October 18th, 2009
Do you know where your private prescription information is? As pharmacy chains, benefits companies and drug makers work more closely, your prescription...
Re-Identification. From Netflix to Health Records.
October 17th, 2009
Today’s NY Times story points out the FACT that is very easy to re-identify supposedly “de-identified” information. Singer starts with how the...
When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question
October 17th, 2009
TIME to revisit the always compelling — and often disconcerting — debate over digital privacy. So, what might your movie picks and...
NCI to open research grid to cancer patient ‘army’
October 9th, 2009
The National Cancer Institute has developed Web-based tools that could give cancer researchers collaborating over the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) access...
Open Source Research
October 9th, 2009
See the Government Health IT article: NCI to open research grid to cancer patient ‘army’
Women desperate to cure breast cancer are contributing...
Netflix Contest Seen As Posing Privacy Risk
September 23rd, 2009
Privacy advocates are questioning Netflix’s plan to release “anonymized” data as part of an effort to crowdsource improvements to its recommendation system.
…Although...
Netflix is about to commit a privacy Valdez with its customers’ viewing data
September 22nd, 2009
CU Boulder’s Paul Ohm writes about Netflix’s insane new plan to release millions of customers’ personal information — ZIP code, gender, year...