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.”
By Adrian Gropper and Deborah C. Peel Among other rich nations, US healthcare stands out as both exceptionally privatized and exceptionally expensive. And taken overall, we have the worst health outcomes among the Western Democracies. On one hand, regulators are reluctant to limit private corporate action lest we reduce innovation and patient choice and promote moral…
By Adrian Gropper Will the machines use our own personal information against us? The answer depends on privacy regulations that are yet to be written. I know that the current approach to privacy regulation, be it general as in GDPR or sectoral as in HIPAA, is not readily extensible to a world where the principal…
January 26, 2017 12:00 PM Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society 23 Everett St., 2nd floor, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA Register for this event The Digital Health @ Harvard brown bag lunch series features speakers from Harvard as well as collaborators and colleagues from other institutions who research the intersection between health and digital technology….
Adrian Gropper, MD is CTO of Patient Privacy Rights, a national organization representing 10.3 million patients. As an entrepreneur and physician-developer he has founded a number of software-intensive medical device companies. He has also participated in the creation of Blue Button, Direct Project, and Blue Button Plus, and is active in promoting open and patient-centered…
