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As we inexorably digitize everyday life, for-profit “Big Tech” cannot be trusted to serve the individual or society.
This post describes ten separable concerns for COVID-19 vaccine credentials, and responsive design strategies.
An important step toward making health care more equitable will require transferring control of health records to patients and patient groups.
Until there is a vaccine or treatment for COVID-19, our economy and privacy will be at the mercy of imperfect technology used in the pandemic response.
By Adrian Gropper, MD This post originally appeared on The Health Care Blog. This piece is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?” which explores whether it’s possible to advance…
By Adrian Gropper Google’s semi-secret deal with Ascension is testing the limits of HIPAA as society grapples with the future impact of machine learning and artificial intelligence. I. Glenn Cohen points out that HIPAA may…
By Adrian Gropper The October 22 announcement starts with: “U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) will introduce the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act,…
By Adrian Gropper The rather esoteric issue of a national patient identifier has come to light as a difference between two major heath care bills making their way through the House and the Senate. The…
The common thread of our comments is the need to treat patients and physicians, not the data brokers, as the real stakeholders.
Regardless of how one defines a longitudinal health record, we might agree that it should follow the patient by being accessible to the physicians and other caregivers designated by the patient “without special effort.”
