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Mind Matters
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October 17, 2018
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Data Privacy, Medicine and Health
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The $60 Billion-Dollar Medical Data Market is Coming Under Scrutiny

As a patient, you do not own the data and are not as anonymous as you think
Mind Matters
October 17, 2018
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Data Privacy, Medicine and Health
Data management companies can come to know a great deal about you; they just don’t know your name—unless, of course, there is a breach of some kind. Time Magazine reported in 2017 that “Researchers have already re-identified people from anonymized profiles from hospital exit records, lists of Netflix customers, AOL online searchers, even GPS data of New York City taxi rides.” One would expect detailed medical data to be even more revelatory. Read More ›
MRI brain : Brain tumor at right parietal lobe
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 5, 2018
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Medicine and Health, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
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Boy loses large hunk of brain

And is “doing just fine”
Denyse O'Leary
August 5, 2018
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Medicine and Health, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
When pundits talk glibly of creating artificial minds or claim that consciousness is an illusion, it might help to remember that few predicted cases like this could exist and few thought that high tech diagnostics would lead to their discovery. Read More ›
Collection CT scan of brain and multiple disease
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 31, 2018
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Machine Learning, Medicine and Health, Social Factors
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Better medicine through machine learning?

Data can be a dump or a gold mine
Denyse O'Leary
July 31, 2018
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Machine Learning, Medicine and Health, Social Factors
The biggest problem today isn’t the sheer mass of data so much as the difficulty of determining what it is worth. The answer lies, unfortunately, in the undone studies and the unreported events. Machine learning will be a much greater help when those problems are addressed. Read More ›