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...
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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...
‘Healthcare is slow to change’ to cloud environment (Part II)
August 11th, 2009
Cloud computing is not just on the healthcare horizon. Partial and pure-play cloud computing architectures are already serving healthcare information technology needs...
Security and Hacking, Real Fears
August 4th, 2009
See the WSJ Article: New Epidemic Fears: Hackers
Securing health records in small doctor’s offices and clinics is not easy: small offices can’t...
UK Handing off their health records?
July 6th, 2009
Federal Computer Week: U.K. mulls handing off national health records to Microsoft, Google
It will be interesting to see which one the UK...
UK Handing off their health records?
July 6th, 2009
Federal Computer Week:U.K. mulls handing off national health records to Microsoft, Google
It will be interesting to see which one the UK chooses. Microsoft joined...
But privacy is ALREADY gone!
June 22nd, 2009
Refer to Wall Street Journal article: Is Government Health Care Constitutional?
The authors fear that Americans’ health privacy rights will be eliminated by health reform...
HIMSS & Who is Promoting HIT in Stimulus Spending?
May 17th, 2009
This story tells how HIMSS and Harvard’s Blackford Middleton promoted spending billions on health IT in the stimulus bill.
HIMSS and Blackford believe that health...
Committee studies public health, research
May 11th, 2009
The eligibility for $17 billion in economic stimulus law money for health information technology should include requirements for collecting and exchanging electronic public health...
HIT experts warn about EHR investment in open letter to Obama
January 30th, 2009
Two healthcare information technology experts have penned an open letter to President Obama, warning him against investing too many federal dollars in existing electronic...