Crunch Two Data Sets, Call Me in the Morning
May 22nd, 2012
Patients not given discretion over data-mining of digitized health records despite serious ramifications.
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Hospitals enlist vendors for data analytics help
May 17th, 2012
Data mining is a growing concern for patient privacy in hospitals as providers turn to tech corporations for help.
Health privacy issues can be resolved without obstructing care
April 9th, 2012
Issues with patient privacy today are significant but not insurmountable.
Re: BCBS Breach in Tennessee
March 14th, 2012
OCR of HHS slapped the wrist of BCBS of Tennessee, but should have done much, much more.
HHS quietly withdraws HIPAA breach-notification rule
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 HHS has without fanfare withdrawn its HIPAA "breach notification" final rule that had been submitted to...
Problems with IBM’s new “massive” research study
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...
IBM launches massive health data research project
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...
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...
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 moving to Cloud Computing
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...