This is the fourth installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Genomic sequencing is playing a growing role in genetic sequencing for research and drug development. Today, patient testing is generally reserved for those who have already had a preliminary ...
HIPAA, Security, and Your Devices
It’s a scary world out there when you think of hackers getting access to your bank accounts, email, or social media sites. It’s quite another thought when hackers get access to medical devices and run havoc. It almost sounds like something we would see in a movie, like “The ...
The Social Conquest of Medicine, Part 2: Navigating Risks and Benefits
We are navigating between several health information worlds: health info, medical info and clinical info. The standards for truth vary with the risk from the Web and open information, buyer beware, to the double-blind clinical trial. Is it feasible to apply the rules of clinical ...
The Social Conquest of Medicine: 23andMe and Conflict
2013 has shown healthcare is rapidly becoming an information science, a social science and a network science. One of my favorite stories of 2013 that showed this emergence was The Engagement Pill, based on Epilepsy community research by PatientsLikeMe, hinting that patient ...