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Privacy and Security in Health Care: A fresh look

The United States health care industry is data-rich. Every encounter with the system results in an electronic footprint. The promises of connectivity – electronic and personal health records, clinical warehousing, home monitoring, distance medicine, and more – mean exponential increases in data and, in tandem, exponential opportunities for breaches of privacy and security of personal health information. Facebook Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg is a household name because his trade – connectivity, information, data flow – and data has ubiquitous impact on daily lives. Health care information is no less ubiquitous.

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