Archive for the ‘Health Care Privacy Concerns’ Category
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Recently, Google has started providing the federal government with information about Internet searches regarding influenza and pneumonia. The presumption is that the user may be concerned about a possible infection. That is a crude method of trying to tract infectious outbreaks, or epidemiology. True epidemiology is conducted by capturing real ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
In chapter 8 of Personalizing Your Health Care, a review of health care information technology is provided for you, along with an assessment of the Department of Health and Human Services' information technology (IT) strategic plan 2008 - 2012. This comprehensive plan for connecting the computer systems in the United ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Maggie Shields writing for the BBC News reported that Facebook is being sued by The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic for 22 separate privacy violations. Harley Finkelstein, 24 and a Facebook user for the last three years, told the BBC: "Facebook promotes itself as a social utility, but ...
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