Joe Conn looks more deeply into the problems of 'cloud' computing for the storage, exchange, and analysis of health data. See his article in Modern Healthcare: 'Healthcare is slow to change' to cloud environment
Today there is not yet a trusted organization to certify the privacy of electronic health records systems, whether on servers or in clouds.
Until the privacy of health data can be assured first with trusted security certification and then with a separate stringent privacy certification (proving that patients control the use and disclosure of their sensitive records) Americans will not trust that their data is safe.
Proof that consumers control personal data in clouds will be essential for trust in health IT.
So far all we have are promises of security and privacy. We won't trust without verification .
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Who is tracking YOU?
On the Internet ALL your health searches about scary and stigmatizing illnesses, all searches or purchases of books on health, and all searches or purchases of medications and devices are tracked and sold.
It is impossible to search for health information privately via Google, etc.
Health websites take massive advantage of Americans' powerful expectations that ALL healthcare providers put their interests and their privacy first---expectations which come from the traditional doctor-patient relationship and the ethics that have governed Medicine for 2,400 years (derived from the Hippocratic Oath).
Americans are not yet ready to believe that every aspect of healthcare in the US is profit-driven, rather than driven by the ethical codes all health professionals swear to at graduation: the promises to "do no harm" and to "guard their secrets".
Americans are not yet ready to believe that Wall Street has taken over Medicine---and that instead of guaranteeing the strong health privacy rights Americans have under the law, Wall Street erases our rights to ensure shareholder profits.
View this story in the NY Times: Ads Follow Web Users, and Get More Personal
It is impossible to search for health information privately via Google, etc.
Health websites take massive advantage of Americans' powerful expectations that ALL healthcare providers put their interests and their privacy first---expectations which come from the traditional doctor-patient relationship and the ethics that have governed Medicine for 2,400 years (derived from the Hippocratic Oath).
Americans are not yet ready to believe that every aspect of healthcare in the US is profit-driven, rather than driven by the ethical codes all health professionals swear to at graduation: the promises to "do no harm" and to "guard their secrets".
Americans are not yet ready to believe that Wall Street has taken over Medicine---and that instead of guaranteeing the strong health privacy rights Americans have under the law, Wall Street erases our rights to ensure shareholder profits.
View this story in the NY Times: Ads Follow Web Users, and Get More Personal
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