Reading Assignment for October 17

We’ll be joined on Friday by Ilene Moore, General Counsel of The Permanente Federation, and Prof. Deirdre Mulligan of the I School.  Here are two readings for the class:

Jingquan Li, Privacy Policies for Health Social Networking Sites, J. Am Med Inform Assoc 2013; 0:1-4

J.Am.Med Privacy policies for health social networking sites

Joseph Hall and Deven McGraw.  For Telehealth To Succeed, Privacy And Security Risks Must Be Identified And Addressed.  Health Affairs, 33, no.2 (2014):216-221

Health Affairs For Telehealth to Succeed, Privacy and Security Risks Must be Identified and addressed

Reading assignment for October 3

Our guest speaker for tomorrow’s class is Andrea Kissack, Senior Editor, Science at KQED. Andrea has suggested the following readings:

Here are three  articles on the digital health makeover that I like. The third is very skeptical but worth reading,  as it comes from the Times (I actually spoke with Elizabeth at the Rock Health conference that she is writing about) and I think east coast journalists look at us out in CA like we have all drank the cool-aid …

Eric Topol/WSJ-

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303404704577311421888663472?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303404704577311421888663472.html

The Robot Will See You now/The Atlantic-

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/03/the-robot-will-see-you-now/309216/

and the article questioning the hype around digital health from the NYT’s Elizabeth Rosenthal

Big Data–

How Big Data is Changing Medicine/KQED (from last week)

http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/how-big-data-is-changing-medicine/

 

If you want to dig deeper into  efforts to make data more available to accelerate scientific research, here is a talk from an advocate.

Ted Radio hour on Privacy and the need for sharing medical information through medical records, wearables, etc. 

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=265700003&m=268935002