August 2nd, 2010
Following a firestorm of criticism from privacy advocates... HHS has without fanfare withdrawn its HIPAA "breach notification" final rule that had been submitted to...
May 10th, 2010
The problem is IBM’s research project does not appear to start with obtaining informed consent from the individuals (or their parents) whose data will...
May 6th, 2010
IBM has announced it has launched a multi-year research project to connect and analyze enormous collections of data from a wide variety of sources...
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...
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...
August 15th, 2009
Joe Conn looks more deeply into the problems of ‘cloud’ computing for the storage, exchange, and analysis of health data. See his article...
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...
July 24th, 2009
So much so that he repeatedly returned to the topic while debating health care reform last night.
See Editorial with Video
68% of Americans...
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...
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...
