Knowledge Prostitution in clinical data
Friday, a client asked me about privacy, data security and social networking in clinical trials. The client told me that they were considering using a physicians‘ portal to market their digital therapeutic product after they completed their pivotal clinical trial. (See my article on 4 strategies to get FDA approval for your medical device ). […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tahrir square – the high-tech version
From Wired The revolt that started a year ago today in Egypt was spread by Twitter and YouTube, or so the popular conception goes. But a group of Navy-backed researchers has a more controversial thesis:Egyptians were infected by the idea of overthrowing their dictator. Using epidemiological modeling to chart the discussions and their trajectory online is an interesting idea, I don’t […]
Anatonme – a hand held device for improving patient-doctor communications
From a recent article in Healthcare Global. Studies suggest that 30-50 percent of patients are likely to give up treatments early. Microsoft Research has developed an innovative, hand-held medical device called Anatonme to help patients understand their issue and complete their treatment plan more often. We’ve been doing research and development into private, controlled social […]
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 […]
Configuring email notifications to be friendly but secure
I have commented in the past on the generally low security level of Microsoft ASP.Net web applications which stems from the closed Microsoft monoculture and a product strategy that prioritizes ease of use over security and privacy by hiding features and functionality from the user. In the course of a security audit/penetration test of a […]
Software security assessments
In a way, every software security assessment is an exercise in software development. The first step in the software security assessment project is requirements analysis. Requirements analysis is concerned with what the system (whether it be a “traditional” application or a rich Web 2.0 application for social networking) needs to do. This involves examining the […]
What is security?
So what is security anyhow? Security is not about awareness. A lot of folks talk about the people factor and how investing in security awareness training is key for data protection. I think that investing in formal security awareness training, internal advertising campaigns and all kinds of fancy booklets and cards for employees is a […]
Private social networking for healthcare
I think we’re rapidly approaching a point in time where people will pay for privacy. I know that after a super-hot month of August with the house full of kids chain-watching Ratatouille, I would pay someone for some privacy. The privacy controls that governments are attempting to impose on social media and the technical safeguards that […]
