Sharing personal health information can never be risk-free, but it can be low-risk

(By Sam Wehbe for STAT)

The growing use of electronic medical records, electronic insurance claims, and other medical software systems is generating massive volumes of personal health information. While the primary purpose of capturing this information is to provide patient care, researchers have a voracious appetite for this flood of data. But what may be good for medical and health care research may not be good for you if hackers can identify you in these datasets. Continue reading article here……

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