• Analysis of huge data sets will reshape health care
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/24/big-data-health-care/3631211

    Electronic medical records and decisions by governments and companies to share data have made for smarter decision-making that can save money and provide better care, experts say.

    Though the rewards of such data use are great, so are the privacy concerns, Hide said. “We have opened a pandora’s box, and it makes the NSA’s problems look trivial.”

    If made public, genomic data could lead to employment discrimination, as some people might not be hired for jobs because of potential health problems that could raise an employer’s insurance costs.

    There have been cases in which health and insurance information has been released accidentally. The industry must do better, Sengupta said.

    “We treat privacy now as a legal issue with a disclaimer,” Sengupta said. “We need to have privacy built in. Technology created the problems, but technology can also fix it.”

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