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Khaled El Emam (PhD), Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and the School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa -- Principal Investigator.
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Elizabeth Jonker, Research Assistant.
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Fida Dankar (PhD), Post Doctoral Fellow.
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Marina Sokolova (PhD), Research Associate.
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Angelica Neisa, Statistician.
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Emilio Neri, Systems security and administrator.
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Sadrul Chowdhury, Software developer.
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Grant Middleton, Software developer.
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Sean Rose, Software developer.
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Ann Brown, Consulting Statistician.
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Previous Members
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Scott Sams, PhD Student, Political Science, University of Toronto -- Research Assistant.
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Mary Lysyk, PhD student, Population Health, University of Ottawa.
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Romeo Issa, MSc Student, Computer Science, Carleton University -- Research Assistant.
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Sam Jabbouri, MSc Student, Computer Science, Carleton University -- Research Assistant.
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Xin Fei, PhD Student, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa -- Research Assistant.
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3 March 2010
A study just published examines the leaks of PHI from peer-to-peer file sharing program users in the US and Canada, and compares that to leaks of financial information. The article also examines the ethical issues in collecting personal information from the Internet without consent, and what the considerations should be.
1 March 2010
This one day event on April 6th in Ottawa examines issues around the need and mechanisms for the integration of patient information into a single record, and how to take account of patients' needs while doing so. It is a unique opportunity to understand the patients' perspectives in the efforts to deploy EMRs and EHRs.
12 February 2010
A new article in Healthcare Information Management and Communications describes the privacy risks to patients from inadvertant and deliberate disclosure of health information. Because the frequency and magnitude of these disclosures is expected to increase, the articles calls for more meaningful patient engagement in developing rules on the collection, use, and dislcosure of health information and the incorporation of the principles of Privacy by Design in the development of new systems.
11 January 2010
In conjunction with the Canadian AI Conference, we are organizing a workshop focusing on the theory, development, and application of intelligent methods for protecting the privacy of personal information when disclosed for secondary purposes. This will be held on May 30th 2010 in Ottawa.
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