Crossed wires: how yesterday's privacy rules might undercut tomorrow's nationwide health information network.

Tomorrow's causation standards for yesterday's wonder material: Reiter v. Acands, Inc. and Maryland's changing asbestos litigation.

Shifts in the architecture of the Nationwide Health Information Network

In the midst of a US $30 billion USD investment in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) and electronic health records systems, a significant change in the architecture of the NwHIN is taking place. Prior to 2010, the focus of information exchange in the NwHIN was the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO). Since 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) has been s...

The Reuters Corpus Volume 1 -from Yesterday's News to Tomorrow's Language Resources

Reuters, the global information, news and technology group, has for the first time made available free of charge, large quantities of archived Reuters news stories for use by research communities around the world. The Reuters Corpus Volume 1 (RCV1) includes over 800,000 news stories typical of the annual English language news output of Reuters. This paper describes the origins of RCV1, the moti...

Discussion Paper: Privacy-Preserving Distributed Queries for a Clinical Case Research Network

We present the motivation, use-case and requirements of a clinical case research network that would allow biomedical researchers to perform retrospective analysis on de-identified clinical cases joined across a large scale (nationwide) distributed network. Based on semi-join adaptive plans for fusion-queries, in this paper we discuss how joining can be done in a way that protects the privacy of...

Analyzing Tools and Algorithms for Privacy Protection and Data Security in Social Networks

The purpose of this research, is to study factors influencing privacy concerns about data security and protection on social network sites and its’ influence on self-disclosure. 100 articles about privacy protection, data security, information disclosure and Information leakage on social networks were studied. Models and algorithms types and their repetition in articles have been distinguished a...