Why Your Doctor Doesn’t Look at You Anymore Should you treat the chart, or the patient? Increasingly over the past decades healthworkers of all stripes – doctors and nurses, therapists and technicians – buff the chart first. Legal, insurance and regulatory requirements have burgeoned to overcome the concerns of health. Checklists work very well in military and […]
Insecure – Your Electronic Health Record Has Been Hacked
Insecure Has your electronic health record been hacked? Are the most private histories of you and your parents, your spouse and children, now public knowledge? Do governments, corporations and individuals know about your drinking history, your sexual transmitted diseases, when you lost your job because of a marijuana urine test? Do they know the details of your kids’ […]
A Modest Proposal to Save Countless Lives (6/11/13)
Liberating Health(y) Surveillance The American public has been shocked, shocked to learn the NSA has potentially tapped every phone and email account in the U.S. – for national security. Yet Facebook, Google and others have for years tracked your cat photos and car interiors, love affairs and esteemed nude self portraits, selling bits and bytes […]
Privacy and profit – how health care records get used (3/7/12)
The Death of Privacy Privacy is dead – so we hear. Somewhere on the Net lies all the data on you ever uploaded. Much of that information is now going into the cloud – to servers all over the world. Now here’s the story of one Tennessee teacher. She was unhappy with School Board policies, […]
The end of medical privacy – and how to prepare for it (7/13/11)
Prepare For the End Mark Zuckerberg has declared that privacy is dead. Though he’s done his bit to achieve that state, he’s right. And he’s about to become ever more correct. Americans should view the recent hacking information scandals in Britain with alarm, because the same problems are now here – or will be. If […]