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Cloud computing puts your health data at risk?

by | Sep 18, 2008

In today’s Windows Secrets, Stuart Johnston writes about the pros and cons of having our health data out on the Internet, as proposed by Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. Quotes: “Selling prescription records is a multibillion-dollar-a-year...

Not Just a Pretty Picture

by | Sep 4, 2008

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published health risk data in a way that only a researcher would love (Reason.com’s Hit & Run blog links to the subscription-only charts here in case you want to marvel at the ugliness). Luckily The New York...

What’s in *your* MIB?

by | Sep 2, 2008

[Video at http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1418520436 is no longer available] A week ago Ted Eytan posted about a Consumer Reports Health blog post, including a video of a patient who is unable to get health insurance because of an error in...

Is ANYONE responsible for the whole patient?

by | Jul 29, 2008

The e-Patients Group has been discussing Shannon Brownlee’s book Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, which tells how the logic of the U.S. healthcare system works against coordination and effective treatment. “Between 20 and...

Are on-line pharmacies a threat to participatory medicine?

by | Jul 10, 2008

In a piece in the New York Times 7/9/08 (Abuses are Found in Online Sales of Medication) a report (also out Weds) from Columbia University is described. According to the authors, 85% of online sites that sell medications directly to the public do not require a...

Electronic Medical Records No Panacea

by | May 14, 2008

If you didn’t hear, lots and lots of people snooped into celebrities’ medical records in L.A. — the number of people who’ve been caught just at the UCLA Medical Center is up to 68! Worse yet, these are electronic medical records, you know,...

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