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Google PHR Pilot Begins at the Cleveland Clinic

Posted by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Friday February 22, 2008 @ 03:55 AM
from the interesting-developments dept.
Many news sources are reporting the Google PHR Pilot announcement such as the NY Times: '...on Thursday, Google’s technology for personal health records, which is still in development, is getting a big endorsement from the Cleveland Clinic. The big medical center is beginning a pilot project to link the health information for some of its patients with Google personal health records...' Digg this article

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World Privacy Forum addressed PHR's yesterday-
by John Norris on Friday February 22, 2008 @ 05:15 AM

World Privacy Forum's report "Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy" released yesterday goes into considerable detail as to why PHR's are a privacy nightmare.

They discuss how PHR vendors may not be covered by HIPAA nor patient/provider confidentiality laws (esp subpoenas.)

They particularly note that PHR vendors that also provide email services have a lot of data that can be easily linked together (...and to you.)

I'd really like to see this sort of thing work, but am cautious.

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Re: World Privacy Forum addressed PHR's yesterday-
by pacoit on Monday February 25, 2008 @ 08:26 PM

The World Privacy Forum report makes a number of valid statements; but the context is rather ridiculous. It states at the beginning that the report pertains only to PHRs not covered by HIPAA. It then proceeds to make the case that PHRs not covered by HIPAA will not have the same privacy protections as those covered by HIPAA. Genius.

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