News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Big Data"

2019 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Consuming Genetics: Ethical and Legal Considerations of New Technologies

May 17, 2019 8:30 AM - 5:15 PM
Conferences
2018-2019
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West (2019)
1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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Digital Health @ Harvard: What Should Happen to Our Medical Records When We Die?

April 3, 2019 12:00 PM
Lectures and Panels
2018-2019
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C (2036)
1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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Privacy in the age of medical big data

Nature Medicine, January 7, 2019
by by W. Nicholson Price (Academic Fellow Alumnus) and I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)

From the article: "Big data has come to medicine. Its advocates promise increased accountability, quality, efficiency, and innovation. Most recently, the rapid development of machine-learning techniques… Read More

In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes On Tricky Public Health Role

New York Times, December 31, 2018
by Natasha Singer

[...] Police stations from Massachusetts to Mumbai have received similar alerts from Facebook over the last 18 months as part of what is most likely the world’s largest suicide threat screening… Read More

Health Law Workshop: Natalie Ram

October 22, 2018 5:00 PM
Health Law Workshops
2018-2019
Hauser Hall, Room 104
Harvard Law School, 1575 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

Big questions raised by big data

Harvard Law Today, September 20, 2018
by Lewis Rice, featuring Carmel Shachar (Executive Director) and I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)

From the article: During the introduction to the book launch event for “Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics,” one of the editors, Harvard Law School Professor I. Glenn… Read More

The Ethics of Smart Pills and Self-Acting Devices: Autonomy, Truth-Telling, and Trust at the Dawn of Digital Medicine

The Ethics of Smart Pills and Self-Acting Devices

American Journal of Bioethics, September 20, 2018
by Craig M. Klugman, Laura B. Dunn, Jack Schwartz, and I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)

From the abstract: Digital medicine is a medical treatment that combines technology with drug delivery. The promises of this combination are continuous and remote monitoring, better disease management,… Read More

Book Launch: Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics

September 12, 2018 4:00 PM
Lectures and Panels
2018-2019
Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B
Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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Drug Approval in a Learning Health System

Minnesota Law Review, Forthcoming, July 30, 2018
by W. Nicholson Price (Academic Fellow Alumnus)

From the article: The current system of FDA approval seems to make few happy. Some argue FDA approves drugs too slowly; others too quickly. Many agree that FDA—and the health system generally—should… Read More

Call for Abstracts: Data Min(d)ing: Privacy and Our Digital Identities

Call for Abstracts: Data Min(d)ing: Privacy and Our Digital Identities
Office of the Chief Information Officer: Department of Health and Human Services

Deadline: June 15, 2018

General Description:As we go about our daily lives, we leave a digital trail of data. Data points from what we share on social media, pings from our internet-connected devices, and purchases from our grocery… Read More

NOW AVAILABLE! Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics

Cambridge University Press, March 2018
by I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Holly Fernandez Lynch (former Executive Director), Urs Gasser, and Effy Vayena

Now available - order it online! From the book: When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit… Read More

Risk and Resilience in Health Data Infrastructure

Colorado Technology Law Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2017)
by W. Nicholson Price II (Academic Fellow Alumnus)

From the journal article: Today’s health system runs on data. However, for a system that generates and requires so much data, the health care system is surprisingly bad at maintaining, connecting,… Read More