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Devices and Data: The Information We Share
RAND mathematician Mary Lee describes the wide variety of personal data collected by smart devices and applications, such as smartwatches, brain implants, and period trackers.
Feb 28, 2023
Commentary
Telemedicine Abortion? It's Not as Easy as It Sounds
The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has providers and health advocates strategizing about how to provide more abortions where it is still legal. Expanding virtual medical visits is one popular idea. Policymakers and clinics could take steps to make telemedicine better understood, easier to use, and more equitable.
Aug 19, 2022

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Commentary
The Perils of Connecting Our Bodies to the Internet
High-tech health care solutions are part of an emerging sector of medical technologies that monitor personal health data by essentially connecting your body to the Internet. As smart devices in health care evolve, the line between human and machine is blurring, and creating new concerns about consumer safety and privacy rights.
Oct 15, 2018
Commentary
How Smartphone Apps Could Help Keep Health Records Accurate
Electronic health records have helped streamline record keeping but providers aren't always able to reliably pull together records for the same patient from different hospitals, clinics, and doctor's offices. The growing use of smartphones offers a promising opportunity to improve record matching.
Oct 4, 2018
News Release
Mobile Phones and Smartphone Apps Hold Promise for Allowing Patient Participation in Improving Medical Record Matching
Mobile phones and smartphone apps offer a promising approach to ensure that an individual's medical records when shared between different health care providers are matched correctly.
Aug 22, 2018
Report
Patients Could Help Improve Record Matching
When health providers exchange medical records, the success rate can be as low as 50 percent. The ubiquity of mobile phones offers a promising opportunity to create a patient-empowered system to confirm identities that would allow hospitals and other providers to match records more accurately.
Aug 22, 2018
Commentary
Keeping Artificial Intelligence Accountable to Humans
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are often only as intelligent and fair as the data used to train them. To enable AI that frees humans from bias instead of reinforcing it, experts and regulators must think more deeply not only about what AI can do, but what it should do—and then teach it how.
Aug 20, 2018
Commentary
The WannaCry Cyber Attack Could Be the First of Many If the NHS Takes No Action
In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) was one of the organizations most severely affected by the WannaCry ransomware. The NHS and other public sector organizations need to improve their cybersecurity processes and quickly before a more severe cyber attack takes place.
Dec 1, 2017
Dissertation
Role of Data in Improving Care within a Health System: A Case Study of the Australian Health System
This study aims to understand how organizational context and interfaces affect the collection, management, and use of data for care improvement (CI).
Aug 2, 2017
Journal Article
Possible Legal Barriers for PCP Access to Mental Health Treatment Records
Over one-third of states appear to have more stringent medical privacy laws than HIPAA (federal), which could hinder primary care and mental health providers' efforts to share information and integrate care.
Jul 19, 2017
Commentary
Using Digital Data in Criminal Investigations
Personal devices such as smartphones and wearables gather and store personal data. How much of this “digital footprint” should be available for criminal investigations?
May 15, 2017
Journal Article
Distributed Ledger Technologies/Blockchain: Challenges, Opportunities and the Prospects for Standards
An overview of the current landscape of DLT/Blockchain developments and the issues that are central to the development of DLT/Blockchain.
May 11, 2017
Report
Helping Law Enforcement Use Data from Mobile Applications: A Guide to the Prototype Mobile Information and Knowledge Ecosystem (MIKE) Tool
Mobile devices automatically and unobtrusively collect data about their users. This report documents a prototype tool created to help interested stakeholders better understand this mobile app ecosystem, and its use by law enforcement.
Apr 28, 2017
Report
Understanding value in health data ecosystems: A review of current evidence and ways forward
The potential of health data to improve health R&D, innovation, healthcare delivery, and health systems is substantial. Realising the benefits of health data will require a supportive health data ecosystem and addressing associated challenges.
Apr 27, 2017
Commentary
Reining in Internet Abuse
The internet is being used for harmful, unethical, and illegal purposes. Examples include incitement and recruitment by terrorists, cyber bullying, and malicious fake news. Americans say they are unhappy with the tone of the online discourse, but are reluctant to consider potential remedies.
Mar 23, 2017
Dissertation
Police, Process, and Privacy: Three Essays on the Third Party Doctrine
This dissertation presents the results of three studies that investigate how law enforcement uses electronic surveillance.
Oct 13, 2016
Commentary
Digital Theft: The New Normal
Absolute data breach prevention is not possible, so knowing what people want when it happens is important. Consumers and corporations alike should accept this risk as a “when,” not an “if,” and prepare for it.
Oct 10, 2016
Research Brief
Engineering a Roadmap for Health Information Technology in Chile
RAND developed a roadmap with five objectives for the Chilean government to expand its health information technology (health IT) capabilities over the next ten years.
Aug 25, 2016
Report
A Roadmap for the Development of Health Information Technology in Chile
This report describes a roadmap for fostering development of health information technology in Chile's public health system and presents some recommendations for the ministry to consider when implementing the roadmap.
May 20, 2016
Commentary
Privacy Preferences for Healthcare Records and Information Across Europe
The general public has a more nuanced preference for the privacy of electronic health records than previously thought. Survey respondents said that they would not be averse to individuals involved in the health and rescue professions having access to their basic health information.
May 11, 2016
Infographic
Data Theft Victims, and Their Response to Breach Notifications
This infographic highlights the results of a study of consumer attitudes toward data breaches, notifications of those breaches, and company responses to such events.
Apr 14, 2016
Report
Few Consumers Penalize Hacked Companies for Data Breaches
About a quarter of American adults surveyed reported that they received a data breach notification in the past year, but 77 percent of them were highly satisfied with the company's post-breach response. Only 11 percent of respondents stopped dealing with the company afterwards.
Apr 14, 2016

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RAND Topic:
Health Information Privacy

Topic Synonyms:
Health Information Security

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