Re: [PLUG] Todd Park speaking about open data, Fri 2/25, 11:30 AM

[Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>]

Meh. Watson will be datamining us all within months anyways. 

I, for one, welcome our context-sensitive hyper-aware natural-language-processing robotic overlords. 

--
Doug Stewart

On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:26 PM, "Claude M. Schrader" <plug@claudeschrader.com> wrote:

> On 11:56 Fri 18 Feb     , jeff wrote:
>>>  Mr. Park will be speaking about the Community Health Data Initiative
>>>  (CDHI). The vision of this initiative is to help improve health by
>>>  creating a growing âecosystemâ of community health data supply and
>>>  use. There is huge potential for these HHS datasets to be used to
>>>  improve health across multiple dimensions.
>> 
>> 
>> ack - data security!
>> data mining
>> profiling
>> [insert number of the beast rantings]
>> 
>> 
>> Not shooting the messenger, of course.
> 
> Not to mention the indescribable horror of having a pharmacist at a new
> pharmacy knowing what you're already taking to prevent conflicts. Or an ER
> doc knowing that an unconscious patient has medicine allergies. That's a
> future I don't want a part of.
> Claude
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