How Traditional Health Records Bolster Structural Racism
An important step toward making health care more equitable will require transferring control of health records to patients and patient groups.
Health Information Technology
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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 interoperability while maintaining privacy. Check out other pieces in the series here. It’s 2023. Alice, a patient at Ascension Seton Medical…
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Read more: The End of Privacy? The End of Privacy?
By Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup “Any idea we had about privacy is over,” says Dr. Julia Creet, leading international scholar in Cultural Memory Studies, Professor of English at York University, and author of the upcoming book, The Genealogical Sublime. In 2017, Dr. Creet received a York Research Leader Award in part for her investigative work and documentary…
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Read more: How the Internet and The Mapping of the Human Genome Disrupted the Teaching of Health Law: Does The 21st Century Really Change Everything? How the Internet and The Mapping of the Human Genome Disrupted the Teaching of Health Law: Does The 21st Century Really Change Everything?
By Jennifer S. Bard This piece was part of a symposium featuring commentary from participants in the Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual conference, Promises and Perils of Emerging Health Innovations, held on April 11-12, 2019 at Northeastern University School of Law. The symposium was originally posted through the Northeastern University Law Review Online Forum. Promises and…
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Read more: Measuring Health Privacy – Part II Measuring Health Privacy – Part II
This piece was part of a symposium featuring commentary from participants in the Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual conference, Promises and Perils of Emerging Health Innovations, held on April 11-12, 2019 at Northeastern University School of Law. The symposium was originally posted through the Northeastern University Law Review Online Forum. Promises and Perils of Emerging Health…
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Read more: Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review: Looking Back & Reaching Ahead Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review: Looking Back & Reaching Ahead
This post is part of our Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium. You can read all of the posts in the series here. Review the conference’s full agenda and register for the event on the Petrie-Flom Center’s website. By Prof. I. Glenn Cohen and Kaitlyn Dowling The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,…
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Read more: Measuring Health Privacy – Part I Measuring Health Privacy – Part I
This piece was part of a symposium featuring commentary from participants in the Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual conference, Promises and Perils of Emerging Health Innovations, held on April 11-12, 2019 at Northeastern University School of Law. The symposium was originally posted through the Northeastern University Law Review Online Forum. Promises and Perils of Emerging Health…
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Read more: A Delicate Balance: Proposed Regulations May Upset the Tension between Accessibility and Privacy of Health Information A Delicate Balance: Proposed Regulations May Upset the Tension between Accessibility and Privacy of Health Information
This piece was part of a symposium featuring commentary from participants in the Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual conference, Promises and Perils of Emerging Health Innovations, held on April 11-12, 2019 at Northeastern University School of Law. The symposium was originally posted through the Northeastern University Law Review Online Forum. Promises and Perils of Emerging Health…
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Read more: What Google Isn’t Saying About Your Health Records What Google Isn’t Saying About Your Health Records
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 not be keeping up with our methods of consent by patients and society on the ways personal data is used.…
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Read more: The Right Lesson from the Google-Ascension Patient Privacy Story The Right Lesson from the Google-Ascension Patient Privacy Story
By I. Glenn Cohen As has been well reported in the media, there is a controversy brewing over nonprofit hospital chain Ascension sharing millions of patient records with Google for their project codenamed “Nightingale.” (very Batman, if you ask me!) Most of the discussion so far, and the answers have not yet become pellucid, concerns whether…
