Managing End-of-Life Care in Complex Patients Can Reduce Costs Without Shortening Life
“Complex patients” have clinically advanced illness and multiple co-morbid disease states.
Research
Measuring and Explaining Electricity Price Changes in Restructured States
An effort to determine the effect of restructuring on prices finds that, on average, prices for industrial customers in restructured states were lower, relative to predicted prices, than prices for in
Protecting Job Seekers from Identity Theft
In search of a job after graduating from college, Meg Kemp posts her resume online.
Privacy-Preserving Surveillance Using Selective Revelation
Following the events of September 11, 2001, many in the American public falsely believe they must choose between safety and privacy.
Preserving Privacy by De-Identifying Facial Images
In the context of sharing video surveillance data, a significant threat to privacy is face recognition software, which can automatically identify known people, such as from a database of drivers' lice
A Tale of Two Sectors: Diverging Paths in Taiwan’s Automotive Industry
Global Taiwan examines the impact of globalization on the industry and economy of Taiwan since the spectacular growth of the 1990s.
Finding Lists of People on the Web
Among the vast amounts of personal information published on the World Wide Web ("Web") and indexed by search engines are lists of names of people.
Navigating Computer Science Research Through Waves of Privacy Concerns: Discussions among Computer Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science research and practice are raising growing privacy concerns among the public and government.
How (Not) to Protect Genomic Data Privacy in a Distributed Network: Using Trail Re-identification to Evaluate and Design Anonymity Protection Systems
The increasing integration of patient-specific genomic data into clinical practice and research raises serious privacy concerns.
K-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy
Consider a data holder, such as a hospital or a bank, that has a privately held collection of person-specific, field structured data.
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