Tag: medical data

doctor with nurse looking at computer at hospital

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podcast

Peter Kulaba and Robert J. Marks
Date
February 27, 2020

Tagged
__bp-c-t, __focus-north, Business Intelligence, Data analysis, data analytics, health and medicine, healthcare, information science, medical care, medical data, medical research, Medicine, Uganda}

Bingecast: Data Analytics in Uganda

_{Peter Kulaba and Robert J. Marks
February 27, 2020

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How can business intelligence and data analytics help medical centers in countries like Uganda care for patients and operate more efficiently? Robert J. Marks discusses data analytics, inefficiency, and medicine with Dr. Peter Kulaba. Read More ›

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post

News
Date
April 2, 2019

Categorized
Data Privacy, Technocracy

Tagged
Featured, location data, medical data, Privacy}

Your Phone Is Selling Your Secrets

_{You’d be shocked to know what it tells people who want your money} _{News
April 2, 2019

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Data Privacy, Technocracy}

Big tech companies have an ambiguous relationship with online invasions of privacy. The companies may be able to make much more money selling information about you than you would pay them to use their medium.

Study Shows Eating Raisins Causes Plantar Warts

_{Sure. Because, if you torture a Big Data enough, it will confess to anything} _{Robert J. Marks
December 17, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Enormous data sets compiled by Big Data methods have a higher probability of meaningless correlations than smaller ones compiled by traditional methods. More than ever, common sense is needed. And common sense only comes from programmers writing their own common sense into the software. Read More ›

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post

Mind Matters
Date
October 17, 2018

Categorized
Data Privacy, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Anonymity, medical data, Privacy}

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 ›