GPS Data Used To Measure State And County Changes In Distancing Behavior

Social Distancing Scoreboard by unicast.

Potential Privacy Threat: Linking MRI's And Facial Recognition Technology

You Got A Brain Scan At The Hospital.  Someday A Computer May Use It To Identify You by Gina Kolata.  New York Times.  October 23, 2019.

Cyberattack Illustrates Risk Versus Benefit Caciulation of Centralized Data bases

Data Breaches Dent Singapore's Image As A Tech Innovator by Mike Ives.  The New York Times.  January 29, 2019.  

Shared Medical Data From Medical Devices

Your Medical Devices Are Not Keeping Your Health Data To Themselves by Derek Kravitz and Marshall Allen.  November 21, 2018.

Who Owns Your Medical Data? Most Likely Not You

Who Owns Your Medical Data?  Most Likely Not You by Steven Petrow.  The Washington Post.  November 25, 2018. 

Health Privacy In Crisis: "Lifestyle" Data Used To Price Insurance Plans

Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You--And It Could Raise Your Rates by Marshall Allen.  NPR.  July 17, 2018. 

About One In Ten Patients Record Their Doctor Visits

More Patients Record Doctor Visits With Or Without Permission by Joanne Finnegan.  Fiece Health Care.  July 11, 2017. 

Against Health Data Privatization By Opening Up The Closed-Data And Closed-Algorithm Approach

Stop The Privatization Of Health Data by John T. Wilbanks & Eric J. Topol.  Nature.  July 20, 2016

Risks Of The "Gold Rush" For Patient Health Data

What's Our Health Data Worth?  by Jerry Bellinson.  Consumer Reports.  March 15, 2016. 

Germanwings Crash Raises Questions For Health Professionals

Germanwings Crash Exposes History Of Denial On Risk Of Pilot Suicide by Nicholas Kulish and Nicola Clark

Discussion Of Anonymous Genetic Testing

23andMe And The Promise Of Anonymous Genetic Testing.  The Opinion Pages/Room For Debate.  March 2, 2015. 

Firm's Efforts To Become the "Google Of Personalized Health Care" Present Opportunities And Questions

23AndMe Gives Pfizer Access To Its Genome Database by David Lumb.  Fast Company.  January 13, 2015.

E.R. Reality Show Raises Ethical And Legal Issues With Filming A Death Without Consent

Dying In The E.R., And On TV Without His Family's Consent by Charles Ornstein.  The New York Times

Privacy Issues Confront Healthcare App's

Does Apple's HealthKit App Have A Nude Celebrity Problem? by John Tozzi.  Bloomberg Businessweek.  Septeber 3, 2014.

The Rise Of Medical Identity Theft In Healthcare

The Rise Of Medical Identity Theft In Healthcare by Michael Ollove.  Stateline.  February 7, 2014.

(1)  Medical-relate identity theft accounted for __________ percent of all identity thefts reported in the United States in 2013.

(2)  True or False:  Banking and finance-related identity thefts accounts for more identity thefts than medical ones,

(3)  Medical identity theft is done in order to illegally obtain _________________________________.
(4)  True or False:  A victim of medical identity theft has several means of recourse for recovery.

(5)  The theft of a computer or other electronic device is involved in ________________ of medical-related security breaches.

(6)  Two federal laws governing the confidentiality of medical records are ______________________________________________________.

Using Data Trails To Determine Probable Medical Conditions--Access To Medical Records Not Required

Data Mining To Recruit Sick People by Joseph Walker.  The Wall Street Journal.  December 16, 2013.

(1)  Indirect clues to an individual's health are sometimes available from __________________________________ without accessing personal medical records.

(2)  Firms specializing in clinical trial patient recruitment often use ___________________ to identify sick and target them with ____________________.

(3)  As data-mining methods become more sophisticated it is harder to ______________.

(4)  The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act does not protect _______________________

(5)  A major driver of the trend toward using data mining for health records is the need to speed up recruitment and completion of______________.

Hidden Cameras To Confirm Abuse in Nursing Homes

Watchful Eye In Nursing Homes by Jan Hoffman.  The New York Times.  November 18, 2013.  

(1)  At present three states including ___________________ have permitted residents in long-term care facilities to maintain _______________________.  

(2)  Efforts in other states have stalled because of ______________________.

(3)  Hidden cameras have been relied upon by the _______________ in patient abuse and neglect  and abuse cases for years.  

(4)  What are some of the privacy issues involved in the use of granny cams?

(5)  What are the concerns of low wage health care aides?  

Search Terms On Certain Health Web Sites May Be Shared With Advertisers, Facilitating Target Marketing

Some Health Websites Share User Search Terms:  Study by Genevra Pittman.  Reuters.  July 8, 2013.

Follow the above link, read the article, and test your retention with a quiz.

(1)  The study found that _______ out of _______ populr health sites passed search information to third parties.

(2)  There is the possibility that patients could be subjected to __________ based upon their searches.

(3)  Select the correct option:  U.S. government sites including the National Institutes of Health do/do not share search information.

(4)  True or False:  People searching for medical information can assume that they are anonymous.

No IRS Access To Health Records: Healthcare Officials And Outside Experts

GOP Fears About IRS Access To Medical Records Disputed by Mary Agnes Carey.  Kaiser Health News.  The KHN Blog.  May 20, 2013.

(1)  The role of the IRS in implementing the 2010 health law include enforcing ________
_______________________ and helping determine whether ___________________________.

(2)  According to an expert quoted in the  article the IRS should not ________________
_______ but will have access to an individual's ______________

Only Limited Information Needed For Pinpoint Identification of People From Online Genetic Information

Web Hunt For DNA Sequences Leaves Privacy Compromised by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  January 17, 2013.

Using only the long string of DNA letters, age of research subject, and state of the subject, researchers have successfully identified those subjects and their families.  The ease with which this information was unearthed poses questions for privacy policy in science and has implications for the open sharing data to further genetic research.  The guarantee of privacy granted to research subjects is called into question.  Story also covered here.