Darrell Etherington reports: A newly released data model and draft implementation guide for providing directly to patients digital access to historical health insurance claims data could mean you have better access to this info from the devices you use everyday. Called the CARIN Blue Button API, it’s a new model developed by private sector partners,…
Month: July 2019
Public services card carries ‘big risk’, says UN poverty envoy
Shauna Bowers and Vivienne Clark report: The public services card (PSC) system runs the risk of becoming a centralised database containing intimate, personal information, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty has said. Philip Alston, a professor of law at New York University, said citizens should “think very carefully” about what private information should be…
The House has OK’d a unique patient identifier. Here’s what should happen next
Shaun Grannis, John D. Halamka, and Ben Moscovitch have an opinion piece on STAT that begins: It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and Republicans alike voted for a measure designed…
Amazon: You are not fooling Ryan, or Joe, or any of us
Alexa Guard will listen for breaking glass or fire alarms. https://t.co/EIrhZ0EWOO Could it be more obvious that this is Amazon’s test balloon for always on microphones that will listen for everything. — Ryan Calo (@rcalo) July 31, 2019