i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Here is an article I found about Obama's healthcare reform. It relates to lecture 16 because Obama is pushing for digital health records, personal information that can be accessed by the appropriate parties (i.e. doctors you are visiting) instantaneously. It is also pushing for better data interoperability between different hospitals and doctors. One positive aspect noted by the article is the possibility of reducing costs, by preventing repeat tests.

I think people are right to be concerned about their personal information and how it is managed by the government, especially since it is out of their hands. Sounds like there is a push for encryption, so that the information cannot fall into the wrong hands accidently, but no specifics.

Computerized Health Records