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Twitter agrees to settlement with FTC over privacy charges
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The settlement between Twitter and the US Federal Trade Commission over charges that customers privacy was put at risk hit the news this past week. The settlement may have wide reaching implications.
David Vladeck, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said, “When a company promises consumers that their personal information is secure, it must live up to that promise.” And if a company allows consumers to designate their information as private, it must use reasonable security to support that designation, he said.
Does the brain get rewired by surfing the net?
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There is a fascinating article on Wired.com (http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/techbiz/~3/l5_LN8_yizo/) that describes some research studies done in 2007 on brain activity by Dr Gary Small, a UCLA professor of psychiatry and author (http://www.drgarysmall.com/).
MRI scans of brain activity were done while subjects wore goggles that displayed web pages and used a handheld keypad to search the Internet.
The MRI scanned their brains for areas of high activation indicated by increases in blood flow.
More Court Action should be no surprise for BC Medical Association
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Vancouver BC - May 10, 2010 - Z. Essak, MD
On Friday April 30, 2010 Dr Caroline Wang filed a "Breach of Contract" claim against the BC Medical Association in BC Supreme Court. This follows on the BC Court of Appeal decision of January 22, 2010 that set aside the November 2008 BCSC Judgment "without prejudice" and "without comment on the merits of the dispute", only suggesting that a different legal action should have been used.
Naturally one always hopes disputes can be resolved without resorting to the courts and the significant legal expense and time involved.
Unfortunately, despite the passage of more than two years the will and effort applied has not been sufficient to resolve the dispute between Dr Caroline Wang and other BCMA directors that occurred at the February 2008 Board meeting.
Meanwhile, many of the individuals named in the legal actions remain on the Board and important committees. Notwithstanding potential conflict of interest they continue as participants in the decision-making of the Association.
Here is a timeline of events over the past five years preceding and including the dispute and attached is the "Writ of Summons" and "Statement of Claim" filed in court by Dr Wang.
Clinical examination of the shoulder
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The following links were provided by Cameron Bennett, Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, who recently did a presentation on "Clinical Examination of the Shoulder" at St. Paul's Hospital GP Department CME Rounds.
Highlights of the BC OSCAR-EMR Users Group Meeting
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Vancouver, BC - April 27, 2010
The two-day meeting held on April 19-20, 2010 in Vancouver was very well attended with over 150 people including physicians, office staff and system providers and integrators. There was a buzz of excitement throughout the two days of meetings and many “ah-ha” moments amongst those attending.
Here are three highlights from the meeting, not in any particular order: the OSCAR-CAISI integration, the MyDrugRef physician social network for sharing prescribing tips that are also displayed in the new OSCAR prescription module, and the MyOscar personal controlled health record for patients to receive and even provide medical chart information as participants in their own health care with their physician and health team.
