Our bodies, our data : how companies make billions selling our medical records / Adam Tanner.
By: Tanner, Adam [author.].
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2016]Description: 218 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780807033340 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Medical records -- Data processing | Confidential communications | Data mining | Electronic Health Records | Confidentiality | Data MiningGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R858 .T34 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009117 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.
What the pharmacy knows -- Data bonanza for pharmacies and middlemen -- The covert alliance -- Patient power -- The dossier on your doctor -- Supreme Court battle -- Studying patients over time -- Fighting for patients -- How safe is "anonymized"? -- Korean War over patient data -- The patient's data tower of babel -- 21st century advances -- Intimate, anonymized, and for sale -- At the bottom of Niagara.