Current conversations about health information policy often tend to be based on three broad assumptions. First, many perceive a tension between regulation and innovation. We often hear that privacy regulations are keeping researchers, companies, and providers from aggregating the data they need to promote innovation. Second, aggregation of fragmented data is seen as a threat to its proper regulation, creating the risk of breaches and other misuse. Third, a prime directive for technicians and policymakers is to give patients ever more granular methods of control over data. This article questions and complicates those assumptions, which I deem (respectively) the Privacy Threat to Research, the Aggregation Threat to Privacy, and the Control So...
This article addresses health privacy in the broader context of other areas of recent privacy activi...
Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) are forming in response to President George W. Bus...
Most people are completely oblivious to the danger that their medical data undergoes as soon as it g...
Current conversations about health information policy often tend to be based on three broad assumpti...
Thoughtful scholarship in the area of informational privacy sometimes assumes that a significant lev...
There is increasing investment in large-scale repositories of clinical data, sometimes as a direct r...
The ongoing transition from paper medical files to electronic health records will provide unpreceden...
This essay discusses the threats to health privacy posed by “big data;” an ongoing revolution in dat...
In this Article, we discuss how these principles for balancing apply in a number of important contex...
Health information technology (HIT) has become a signal element of federal health policy, especially...
Collections of computerised personal health data present a very real threat to privacy. Access contr...
The increased use of health information technology (health IT) is a common element of nearly every h...
This paper highlights the costs and benefits associated with the gathering, storing, analyzing, and ...
U.S. health care delivery and administration have undergone transformations that create an expansive...
Advances in technology are shifting the focus of privacy concerns; commonplace transactions can gene...
This article addresses health privacy in the broader context of other areas of recent privacy activi...
Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) are forming in response to President George W. Bus...
Most people are completely oblivious to the danger that their medical data undergoes as soon as it g...
Current conversations about health information policy often tend to be based on three broad assumpti...
Thoughtful scholarship in the area of informational privacy sometimes assumes that a significant lev...
There is increasing investment in large-scale repositories of clinical data, sometimes as a direct r...
The ongoing transition from paper medical files to electronic health records will provide unpreceden...
This essay discusses the threats to health privacy posed by “big data;” an ongoing revolution in dat...
In this Article, we discuss how these principles for balancing apply in a number of important contex...
Health information technology (HIT) has become a signal element of federal health policy, especially...
Collections of computerised personal health data present a very real threat to privacy. Access contr...
The increased use of health information technology (health IT) is a common element of nearly every h...
This paper highlights the costs and benefits associated with the gathering, storing, analyzing, and ...
U.S. health care delivery and administration have undergone transformations that create an expansive...
Advances in technology are shifting the focus of privacy concerns; commonplace transactions can gene...
This article addresses health privacy in the broader context of other areas of recent privacy activi...
Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) are forming in response to President George W. Bus...
Most people are completely oblivious to the danger that their medical data undergoes as soon as it g...