[eHealth] a few more thoughts on ehealth via Danny Weitzner

[m.c. schraefel]

Unfortunately Danny can't make the panel, but a few thoughts from his 
legal perspective are worth getting into the mix.

1) do we need hugely joined up data records that reach our total 
health history? or is more just in time what is appropriate - what's 
been going on lately?

2) privacy: assume that everything is accessible if not directly then 
it's calculatable who belongs to what piece of data - the Google flu 
tracking is one example; more recent examples are data mining various 
social network sites to determine actual identities with very little 
information. In that context, the critical thing is to have 
policies/laws that protect use of information. An example is a recent 
law passed that says genetic profile (if i have this correctly) 
cannot be used against someone for offering medical cover or as 
grounds not to employ someone.


Danny also passed on the attached article on the adoption of health info tech.


Just fyi
mc
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