Deborah Peel
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5 "Crazy Ones' Reshaping Health IT
...With a nod to Apple and its famous 1997 TV spot, which highlighted doers and dreamers in all fields of endeavor who colored outside the lines, we put the spotlight on just five of the many 'crazy ones' who are helping transform health IT in new and unique ways...
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As Health Records Go Digital, Where They End Up Might Surprise You
Two years ago, Latanya Sweeney created a graphic on the widespread sharing of medical files that shocked lawmakers, technologists and doctors. Sweeney, who founded the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard University, produced a “health data map” that looks like a windshield cracked by a few big rocks...
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Google Taking Over Health Records Raises Patient Privacy Fears
Last year, the U.K. government privacy watchdog said an NHS hospital had illegally sent 1.6 million patient records to DeepMind to develop Streams, fanning public fears about data safety. In June, a group of outside experts DeepMind Health appointed to scrutinize its work urged the unit to "entrench" its separation from Alphabet. After the consolidation with Google was announced, Julia Powles, a researcher at New York University School of Law and a critic of DeepMind's work with the NHS, scorched the reversal. "DeepMind said it'd never connect Streams with Google," she wrote. "The whole Streams app is now a Google product! That is an atrocious breach of trust."...
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IT Iconoclasts: Experts Offer Dissent On Policy Issues, Technology Implementation
Each month, more hospitals and office-based physicians buy and use electronic medical records and other health information technologies as the U.S. presses on toward achieving the goal first articulated by President George W. Bush in 2004: providing most Americans with access to an electronic medical record within a decade... Read More »
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Security: Healthcare's Fixer-Upper
The alarming state of affairs, how the industry's slack security is bad for business and what some are doing to step it up...
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Target Breach: Are Pharmacy Records Safe?
Target has not indicated that pharmacy records were exposed, although some say the recent data breach amplifies concerns about “medical identity theft” at retail chains with pharmacies. Read More »
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2015 Health Privacy Summit
The 2015 Health Privacy Summit once again will bring together top national and international experts, as speakers and in the audience, for two days for serious debates about urgent global health privacy issues and realistic solutions. Patients, healthcare professionals, IT innovators, the media, national and international privacy experts from consumer and civil society organizations, academia, industry, and the government gather to listen and participate in vibrant discussions with world leaders and experts in privacy. The program is fast-moving, with a stimulating mix of one-on-one interviews, keynotes, and panels. It offers great networking opportunities at the meals, breaks, and the June 3rd evening Celebration of Privacy, when Patient Privacy Rights presents the Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Awards.
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