At the 2010 Lewin Group Center for CER’s Symposium – “Responding to the National CER Agenda: Evolving Data Sources and Analytics” held June 15, 2010. Deven McGraw, JD, LLM, MPH, Director, Center for Democracy and Technology speaks on “Comparative Effectiveness Research: Policies Needed to Build Public Trust” from the panel “HIPAA Constraints, Privacy and Confidentiality [...]

At the 2010 Lewin Group Center for CER’s Symposium – “Responding to the National CER Agenda: Evolving Data Sources and Analytics” held June 15, 2010. Daniel C. Barth-Jones, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Public Policy speaks on “Balancing Privacy Protection with Scientific Accuracy: Challenges [...]

Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, discusses how the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is helping to stimulate health IT investment and outlines next steps for overcoming remaining obstacles.

John Wilbanks – Vice president for Science of Creative Commons, Executive Director of Science Commons Data that is “anonymous” is less useful, especially in health care, yet protecting health privacy is important. The default system that exists today is not the best choice; how can we move into a better data gathering model that is [...]

As the Obama Administration moves forward with plans to modernize health care by encouraging the use of electronic medical records (EMR), some parties continue to raise concerns about privacy. Strong privacy laws may help protect confidential patient information and encourage user acceptance. But strict privacy laws can also impose additional burdens on health care providers [...]

Google Health allows you to import your health records. Here, in this video, experts review the security concerns associated techblog.aasisvinayak.com

At the 2010 Lewin Group Center for CER’s Symposium – “Responding to the National CER Agenda: Evolving Data Sources and Analytics” held June 15, 2010. Marcy Wilder, JD, Hogan Lovells speaks on “HITECH and Health Privacy” from the panel “HIPAA Constraints, Privacy and Confidentiality in Today’s Research Environment”