Healthcare IT Today September 12, 2022
Andy Oram

A team of women coders caught attention at DEF CON on June 26 with a secure reproductive health tracking app (Figure 1) that lets a menstruating person exchange data securely with health staff. Their core technology was OpenTDF, a free software library that advances a crucial goal in health care: patient control over their own data, in tandem with the ability to share data with their doctors and other people through access policies and encryption.

The need for patient control and privacy protection has become more timely than ever with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v Wade. The public staggered under news that a prosecutor in Nebraska got access to private Facebook postings through a warrant in...

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