Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have developed a prototype that uses information culled from electronic health records, or EHRs, to paint a picture of a patient's medical history. Its first application has been toward predicting domestic abuse cases, but lead researcher, Ben Reis, said the goal is to expand the use for other conditions.
Valuable tool or ethically questionable profiling?
UPDATE:
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, healthcare executives see EHR data as their organizations' most valuable asset. Read the PwC report on secondary use of health data.
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