Dana: Apparently you will never bother to read anything about what I really stand for, you are so in need of an enemy. So I am probably wasting my time responding to you.
I repeat: No one should have to lose his/her privacy or his/her children's privacy forever in order to benefit from health IT---in the words of Latanya Sweeney PhD on designing privacy in health IT systems: "Scott McNealy, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously quipped, "Privacy is dead. Get over it." br
Sweeney's response: "Oh privacy is definitely not dead. When people say you have to choose, it means they haven't actually thought the problem through or they aren't willing to accept the answer.
He very much shares that attitude of the computer scientist who built the technology that's invasive; who says, "Well, you want the benefits of my technology, you'll get over privacy". It's exactly the kind of computer scientist we don't want to be graduating in the future. See:http://patientprivacyrights.org/2007/0/privacyisntdead-or-at-least-it-shouldnt-be-a-qa-with-latanya_sweeney
Deborah Peel, MD
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