Following President Barack Obama’s request that the Department of Health and Human Services look at how to best protect individual privacy while capitalizing on big data, the Health IT Policy Committee’s Privacy and Security Workgroup has come up with preliminary recommendations, HealthData Management reports. The group’s co-chair, Stanley Crosley, CIPP/US, CIPM, presented the recommendations last week. “Patients should not be surprised or harmed by collections, uses or disclosures of their information,” Crosley said. “Nowhere is this more difficult than with big data.” The work group found that while some U.S. laws prohibit discriminatory uses of big data, some uses are actually expressly permitted.
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