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OftenBen  ·  2807 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A story about regulation

So,

In my dreams, there is a revolution coming. A very quiet one.

Computers keep getting smarter, and because of what I've seen Watson to be capable of, there will be a way to analyze Electronic Medical Record systems in an anonymous, bulk sort of way and extract meaningful research data from normal clinical operations of a hospital system. The problem here I think is law more than computing, and I suspect that there are going to be some radical changes in medical /data law in the next few years. There is a possibility that some of those changes will be beneficial.