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Google Health pilot launches with Cleveland Clinic
Patient data including medical histories, allergies, prescriptions, and diagnoses will be stored online, which leads to at least two questions:
- Will people feel that their data is safe simply because they've come up with an unhackable password like "1234?"
- Do you really want Google to know your allergies, and do you trust Google not to try to sell you antihistamines with this information?
As for the password protection, there's no way to guarantee that someone won't hack their way into your data. But there are some basic tips you should follow to come up with a secure password. And you should really use a different password for each online account you have so that someone who finds their way into your Flickr account can't access your medical records.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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michael said 8:16PM on 2-22-2008
Google tapping into my health records? Nah, no thanks.
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Benjamin Wright said 9:21AM on 2-25-2008
Brad: Maybe patients can use contract law to enhance the privacy of their health records. http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/contracts-for-patient-privacy.html
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