Facebook and Healthcare data, the contrarian view.

(Update May 2019.) Publishing this article was part of what started my recent investigation into Facebook’s cybersecurity and privacy practices. The outcome of that investigation means that I do not have any hopeful or positive things to say regarding Facebook and I believe that I was… and we all were, naive. I no longer hold […]

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Sharks, Bees and Privacy

Hi, I am happy to announce that my new article on healthcare privacy and interoperability has been accepted in the Journal of Participatory Medicine. I am not against privacy in healthcare, but I am against the notion that privacy concerns should trump issues relating to good healthcare. You can read the full article here: http://www.jopm.org/opinion/commentary/2011/07/05/sharks-bees-and-health-privacy-paranoia/ […]

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The Power of Push

Hi, The NHIN Direct network has been criticized for lacking relevance for health information exchange. Specifically, Latanya Sweeney has submitted testimony to congress which has nothing good to say about either NHIN project. The paragraph I want to highlight says: ONC’s website also describes NHIN Direct [11] as a parallel initiative underway [3]. The idea […]

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Trust but Verify and Trust but Fork

I have enjoyed participating in the National Dialogue about Health IT. One of the challenges put forward to my suggestion that decision makers should insist on FOSS in Health IT, was the following comment:  in terms of privacy, there’s nothing inherent in FOSS that makes it superior to all proprietary products. I have discussed this […]

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