HealthVault: The Food critic never took a bite.

I hope I have made my case that “patient privacy” is complex enough that merely “Recognize that patients have the right to medical privacy” is the ethical equivalent of saying “When considering the medical ethical issue of abortion , you must recognize that often women want to get pregnant and have a child.” This is […]

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HealthVault: No Commitments and a Sleeping Watchdog.

Has Microsoft committed to keeping the promises that it has already made? No, just the opposite. Their privacy policy concludes:“We may occasionally update this privacy statement” Which means that when the commitments that Microsoft has made regarding HealthVault become inconvenient, they will simply change them. Will the data that you enter into HealthVault be secure? […]

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