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Maintaining Health Data Privacy in Precision Medicine Push
As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve and put PHI at risk, precision medicine guidelines need to be updated to account for new health data privacy threats, according to a recent opinion piece published in the Oxford University Press. The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System Senior Counsel Jennifer Kulynych, JD, PhD explained that data re-identification methods are not foolproof, and it can be difficult to determine exactly how individuals’ genomes are being used...
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NIH Big Data Effort Focuses On Better Knowledge From Existing Data
Big data is transforming biomedical research, National Institutes of Health director Francis S. Collins writes in a blog post announcing an initiative called Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K). To illustrate his point, Collins points to the work of Atul Butte of Stanford University, a NIH-funded researcher looking among mountains of existing data to find new links among genes, diseases and traits.
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Revealed: Google AI Has Access to Huge Haul of NHS Patient Data
It’s no secret that Google has broad ambitions in healthcare. But a document obtained by New Scientist reveals that the tech giant’s collaboration with the UK’s National Health Service goes far beyond what has been publicly announced. The document – a data-sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust – gives theclearest picture yet of what the company is doing and what sensitive data it now has access to...
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Wearable Devices With Health IT Functions Poised To Disrupt Medicine
The next innovation in health care may come from Silicon Valley. With Google, Apple and Samsung exploring how to incorporate health IT features into wearable devices, patients may soon provide information to doctors through devices such as smartwatches that can measure and transmit biometric data.
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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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