Forbes December 14, 2019
Judy Faulkner, founder of Epic, one of the largest providers of electronic medical health records, warned that a proposed rule on information sharing could create a Cambridge Analytica-type situation, where the data of a patients’ friends and family is shared without their consent.
A federal rule on digital health-sharing now under review “has good things to it but there are some bad things that have to be fixed, in my opinion,” Faulkner, 76, told NYU Langone Health CEO Robert Grossman at the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York City on December 5.
“It’s a bit like Facebook in that—the friends of the users who gave permission to Cambridge Analytica to use the system—the friends’ data got pulled out...