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Google is looking to artificial intelligence as a way to make a mark in health care.

Google Searches For Ways To Put Artificial Intelligence To Use In Health Care

Apr 22, 2019
The search giant's push into artificial intelligence as a tool for health improvement is a natural evolution for a company that has developed algorithms that reach deep into our lives through the Web.
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Sleep Number's smart bed tracks a user's heartbeat, breathing and other movements throughout the night to compute how well a person slept.

Like It Or Not, Personal Health Technology Is Getting Smarter

Mar 05, 2018
Tech evangelists say consumer electronics that sense, stream and interpret vital signs will lead to better health and lower costs. But skeptics say reliability and privacy issues still loom.
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Ronda Goldfein, attorney and executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, holds an envelope that revealed a person's HIV status through the clear window.

Aetna Agrees To Pay $17 Million In HIV Privacy Breach

Jan 17, 2018
Health insurer Aetna has reached a settlement with people whose privacy was compromised when their HIV status was visible through the clear address windows on envelopes sent to them.
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How Your Health Data Lead A Not-So-Secret Life Online

Jul 30, 2016
Apps can make managing health care a lot easier, but most don't have the privacy protections required of doctors and hospitals. And a simple Web search can clue in advertisers to health concerns.
NPR
All Tech Considered
Dartmouth College researcher Timothy Pierson holds a prototype of Wanda, which is designed to establish secure wireless connections between devices that generate data.

Researchers Hope This Invention Could Wave Away Medical Data Hacks

May 10, 2016
As health care increasingly moves from hospitals and doctors' offices to the home, patient medical data become more vulnerable to hackers. Dartmouth College researchers hope their product will help.
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Shots - Health News
Brandon Coleman, an addiction therapist for the Phoenix VA Health Care System, filed a privacy complaint after a social worker accessed his medical file in 2014.

Privacy Violations Rising At Veterans Affairs Medical Facilities

Dec 30, 2015
Deceased veterans' documents were sent to the wrong widows. VA workers snooped on patients who had committed suicide. And whistleblowers contend the VA violated their medical privacy.
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Shots - Health News
"It's like feeling your clothes have been ripped off in the middle of work," Fenity said of learning that a CVS co-worker had divulged his health information to colleagues.

Repeat Violators Of Health Privacy Laws Often Go Unpunished

Dec 29, 2015
Regulators have logged dozens, even hundreds of complaints against some health providers for violating federal patient privacy law. Warnings are doled out privately, and sanctions are rarely imposed.
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Shots - Health News
Nadya Suleman was dubbed "Octomom" after the birth of her octuplets.

Celebrities' Medical Records Tempt Hospital Workers To Snoop

Dec 10, 2015
When well-known performers receive health care, the details of their cases can leak. Electronic medical records make peeking easier — and also make it easier to catch the staffers who looked.
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Shots - Health News
Neal Eggeson works out of a tiny office in his suburban Indianapolis home.

Small Violations Of Medical Privacy Can Hurt Patients And Erode Trust

Dec 10, 2015
Breaches that expose the health details of just a patient or two are proliferating nationwide. Regulators focus on larger privacy breaches and rarely take action on small ones, despite their harm.
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Patients of the Minnesota-based St. Cloud Medical Group can follow a public page on Facebook.

Why Your Doctor Won't Friend You On Facebook

Aug 25, 2015
Public professional Facebook pages focused on medicine are catching on. But doctors aren't ready to share vacation photos and other more intimate details with their patients.
NPR
All Tech Considered
A researcher found that online medical searches may be seen by hidden parties, and the data sold for profit.

Online Health Searches Aren't Always Confidential

Jun 08, 2015
Searching a medical issue on the Internet seems harmless enough, but one researcher found that online medical searches may be seen by hidden parties, and the data even sold for profit.
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Despite A Wave Of Data Breaches, Fed Says Patient Privacy Isn't Dead

Mar 20, 2015
Hackers may have gained access to records for 11 million people covered by Premera Blue Cross. It's the latest lapse keeping an obscure government agency that investigates the breaches busy.
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