Our bodies, our data / Adam Tanner

Public ISBD Titre : Our bodies, our data : How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Adam Tanner, Auteur Editeur : Boston : Beacon Press Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 248 p Note générale : 04.01.TAN Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : NTIC  Entreprises  Vie privée  Santé Index. décimale : 04.01 Entreprises - Généralités Résumé : How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomes. Hidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of the prescription you recently filled, your hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of your name but possibly with identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and doctor. As computing grows ever more sophisticated, patient dossiers become increasingly vulnerable to reidentification and the possibility of being targeted by identity thieves or hackers. Paradoxically, comprehensive electronic files for patient treatment—the reason medical data exists in the first place—remain an elusive goal. Even today, patients or their doctors rarely have easy access to comprehensive records that could improve care. In the evolution of medical data, the instinct for profit has outstripped patient needs. This book tells the human, behind-the-scenes story of how such a system evolved internationally. It begins with New York advertising man Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich, who founded IMS Health, the world’s dominant health-data miner, in the 1950s. IMS Health now gathers patient medical data from more than 45 billion transactions annually from 780,000 data feeds in more than 100 countries. Our Bodies, Our Data uncovers some of Frohlich’s hidden past and follows the story of what happened in the following decades. This is both a story about medicine and medical practice, and about big business and maximizing profits, and the places these meet, places most patients would like to believe are off-limits. Our bodies, our data : How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records [texte imprimé] / Adam Tanner, Auteur . - Boston : Beacon Press, 2017 . - 248 p. 04.01.TAN Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : NTIC  Entreprises  Vie privée  Santé Index. décimale : 04.01 Entreprises - Généralités Résumé : How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomes. Hidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of the prescription you recently filled, your hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of your name but possibly with identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and doctor. As computing grows ever more sophisticated, patient dossiers become increasingly vulnerable to reidentification and the possibility of being targeted by identity thieves or hackers. Paradoxically, comprehensive electronic files for patient treatment—the reason medical data exists in the first place—remain an elusive goal. Even today, patients or their doctors rarely have easy access to comprehensive records that could improve care. In the evolution of medical data, the instinct for profit has outstripped patient needs. This book tells the human, behind-the-scenes story of how such a system evolved internationally. It begins with New York advertising man Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich, who founded IMS Health, the world’s dominant health-data miner, in the 1950s. IMS Health now gathers patient medical data from more than 45 billion transactions annually from 780,000 data feeds in more than 100 countries. Our Bodies, Our Data uncovers some of Frohlich’s hidden past and follows the story of what happened in the following decades. This is both a story about medicine and medical practice, and about big business and maximizing profits, and the places these meet, places most patients would like to believe are off-limits.

The corporate ideal in the liberal state 1900-1918 / James Weinstein

Public ISBD Titre : The corporate ideal in the liberal state 1900-1918 Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : James Weinstein, Auteur Editeur : Boston : Beacon Press Année de publication : 1968 Importance : 263 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Histoire économique  Histoire sociale  Etats Unis  Socialisme  Libéralisme  Entreprises  Emploi  Travail Index. décimale : 01.WEI Résumé : In the tradition of the best of revisionist history writing, the author takes on two established tenets of American dogma and effectively upholds his position. Working within the first two decades of this century in what was commonly known as the progressive era, American historians have generally concluded that the epoch produced more rhetorical aspiration than genuine social reform. Mr. Weinstein differs in that he believes that the more sophisticated members of the American plutocracy encouraged: pseudo-reforms that made the 1900-1918 period a genuine pre-vision of the New Deal, Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society. The instrumentality of this corporate social order was the business-dominated National Civic Federation, under whose aegis a liberal state was sought after which would minimize social threats from the lower classes and would deceive the middle and intellectual classes into believing that a good and just society Was at hand. The major concern of this study is a monographic analysis of the goals and techniques of the NCF, and it is a work that will be read by advanced students of twentieth century American history. The corporate ideal in the liberal state 1900-1918 [texte imprimé] / James Weinstein, Auteur . - Boston : Beacon Press, 1968 . - 263 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Histoire économique  Histoire sociale  Etats Unis  Socialisme  Libéralisme  Entreprises  Emploi  Travail Index. décimale : 01.WEI Résumé : In the tradition of the best of revisionist history writing, the author takes on two established tenets of American dogma and effectively upholds his position. Working within the first two decades of this century in what was commonly known as the progressive era, American historians have generally concluded that the epoch produced more rhetorical aspiration than genuine social reform. Mr. Weinstein differs in that he believes that the more sophisticated members of the American plutocracy encouraged: pseudo-reforms that made the 1900-1918 period a genuine pre-vision of the New Deal, Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society. The instrumentality of this corporate social order was the business-dominated National Civic Federation, under whose aegis a liberal state was sought after which would minimize social threats from the lower classes and would deceive the middle and intellectual classes into believing that a good and just society Was at hand. The major concern of this study is a monographic analysis of the goals and techniques of the NCF, and it is a work that will be read by advanced students of twentieth century American history.

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