CLOUD: Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, Inc.

Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data, Inc.
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Patients:

What in the world is HIPAA and why do I keep getting all these "privacy notices" with fine print in the mail?

HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It supports neither portability, accountability, nor privacy. CLOUD does, by letting you decide when and if you'll let others know that your health history belongs to you -- and keeping your identity and your information private until you decide to let someone see it.

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The Power of Standards. A View from the Economist.

Oct 15

Posted by Paul in CLOUD Standards | 2 Comments

In a story that remains free notwithstanding the magazine’s recent movement of more content behind a pay wall, the brand new Economist takes an overview of cloud computing. It gets right to the point:

A storm brewing?
First is the familiar risk of technological lock-in, as rival companies promote their own, mutually incompatible, standards and formats, as they have done in the past.

CLOUD intends to solve that problem for information about you. What better way to avoid technological lock-in for Internet users than to create a multi-industry standard computing language that puts people back in charge of their own information? Turns out this approach addresses the Economist’s second and third concerns — privacy and security — too.

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EHRs: There is no There There on the Internet

Sep 29

Posted by Gary in CLOUD Health | No Comments

Just over a year ago at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC, I posted an item to my personal blog at theendoflinearity.com on this topic, the idea that there are no destinations on the Internet.   Having wrestled with this topic for many months, it became clear that the challenge of ‘destination thinking’ from the real world was complicating solutions to topics like health care because it was focusing us on areas other than patients by which to find solutions.

The quest for the holy grail of the electronic health record is particularly difficult because of fundamental disagreements about matters as general as the scope of the “health” domain. What are the proper relationships between records made by examining physicians, diagnostic experts, health insurance companies, parties paying for health insurance, patients themselves, and others? What about schools that require particular vaccination records or physical examinations for athletic participation? Or financial service providers pricing annuities based on actuarial estimates?

This piece by Tevi Troy at the Washington Post highlights key issues that CLOUD can help address as we seek to solve this electronic health record challenge through new vectors and a change in your horizon.

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