Google and the Cleveland Clinic have announced a pilot project that allows patients to store their health records online.
There’s a post about this on the official Google blog, and Steve Lohr, who Nora interviewed on the February 20/23 show, has more at the more NYT Bits blog.
HiYa – okay, mebbe I’m just compulsive. But when something comes up related to something I posted recently I go back and update. (Really, takes what, 3 minutes?) The name of the professor / doctor on the air right now … I came here to find it … I found this blog post … sans information. HeyHo.
–bentrem
* Judy Illes with NeuroEthics.UBC.ca
bdt
Hiya Ben,
The links to the people we interview, and full, unedited interviews where available, are posted in the show notes:
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/
2008/02/show_notes_february_20_2008.html
Hope that explains our system. thx, ny.
Ben, it seems you’ve found it, but the link to Judy’s bio is in the show notes for the Feb 20/23 show. Find the notes here: http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/02/show_notes_february_20_2008.html
I listened very closely to the Google Health article, but was sad that you completely missed a Canadian perspective. It’s nice to have a sparkly commentator from the New York Times, but really, how about something that reflects our legislation here in Canada? (Notwithstanding the fact that he missed the distinction between privacy *rights* and privacy *interests* — just because we may not have our _rights protected in law [see comment below re: PHIPA] doesn’t mean that we don’t still have privacy _interests to consider…)
Ontario has a health privacy law, the Personal Health Information Protection Act (http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_04p03_e.htm)
and Canada has a much different approach to privacy than they do in the states–for example, privacy legislation that is nation-wide (PIPEDA, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act [http://www.privcom.gc.ca/index_e.asp]). Canada’s federal-level privacy legislation applies to commercial activity (broadly speaking the private sector)–something glaringly absent from the US as a country (there are state laws, for example, in California). PIPEDA would probably apply to Google Health for Canada (since it could be considered a commercial activity–Google _does sell ads, after all), and Ontario’s PHIPA may very well apply in this province as well.
I really like the show, but _please be accurate in your reporting.