Many in healthcare agree that big data, data analytics and data sharing in healthcare are important. In fact, many are greatly investing in these areas. For example, Marc Probst, CIO at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, said his organization is heavily investing in data analytics and John Halamka, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is a huge advocate for data sharing, especially because data sharing and data analytics helped his wife overcome breast cancer.
However, a Bloomberg Business article argues otherwise.
Based off the documents of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) investigation, the article recounts the experience of two women –a mother and a daughter — back in 2008. A clinician called up the daughter, who was a prospective customer applying for health insurance, to ask her why she had left the names of several medications she was taking off the application she submitted to Aetna, the article said.
The clinician then proceeded to name the medications, the dates they were prescribed and the doctors who prescribed them. But the woman insisted that the information was wrong, the article said. As it turns out, those medications were her mother’s, and this slip-up inadvertently exposed medical conditions the mother had been hiding from her daughter.For the full article click here
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