Are you neglecting security incident response in your DCT?
Let me ask you 3 questions. If you answer Yes to all 3 – read this post, if not, then move on. Do you assume that your DCT vendor has a security incident policy – based on the Web site? Are you VP R&D or CEO or regulatory and compliance officer at a drug company. […]
HIPAA compliance for your clinical trials
The golden rules of HIPAA compliance for your clinical trials Flask Data provides a one-stop cloud subscription for EDC, data management and statistics. Welcome to the 21st Century – cloud, on-demand, use as much as you need and eliminate project management overheads and vendor lock-in. As Flask Data customers progress through their clinical trial journey to FDA clearance […]
Privacy, Security, HIPAA and you.
Medical devices, mobile apps, Web applications – storing data in the cloud, sharing with hospitals and doctors. How do I comply with HIPAA? What applies to me – the Security Rule, the Privacy Rule or both? Consider a common use case these days – you’re a medical device vendor and your device stores health information in the cloud. […]
Why big data for healthcare is dangerous and wrong
The Mckinsey Global Institute recently published a report entitled – Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity . The Mckinsey Global Institute report on big data is no more than a lengthy essay in fallacies, inflated hyperbole, faulty assumptions, lacking in evidence for its claims and ignoring the two most important stakeholders of […]
The Private Social Network for healthcare
In his post on the Pathcare blog, I trust you to keep this private, Danny Lieberman talked about the roles that trust, security and privacy play in online healthcare interactions. In this post, Danny talks about healthcare privacy challenges in social networks and describes how to implement a private social network for healthcare without government privacy […]
Can I use Dropbox for storing healthcare data?
First of all, I’m a great fan of Dropbox. It’s easy to use, fast, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and that means you can share files with colleagues and patients for consultations because that old assumption (that a lot of vendors still make by the way) that everyone is on Windows just isn’t true these […]
How to keep secrets in healthcare online
The roles of trust, security and privacy in healthcare. If President Obama had told his psychiatrist he was gay, you can bet that it would be on Facebook in 5′. So much for privacy. pri·va·cy/ˈprīvəsē/ Noun: The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. The state of being […]
The Tao of GRC
I have heard of military operations that were clumsy but swift, but I have never seen one that was skillful and lasted a long time. Master Sun (Chapter 2 – Doing Battle, the Art of War). The GRC (governance, risk and compliance) market is driven by three factors: government regulation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, industry compliance […]
Customer convenience or customer privacy
This is a presentation I gave at the UPU (Universal Postal Union) EPSG (Electronic Products and Services working Group) working meeting in Bern on Feb 20, 2007. About 25 people from 20 countries were present and it was a great experience for me to hear how Postal operations see themselves and what they do in […]
Lies of social networking
Is marketing age segmentation dead? My sister-in-law Ella and husband Moshe came over last night for coffee. Moshe and I sat outside on our porch, so he could smoke his cigars and we rambled over a bunch of topics, private networking, online banking and the Israeli stock market. Moshe grumbled about his stock broker not […]
