By bluerasberry on 2016-08-13
I attended the 2016 Hackers on Planet Earth conference, which was in late July 2016. At the beginning of August, it was my turn to give a speech at my Toastmasters club, and I choose to share a story that I learned at the conference. Toastmasters is a nonprofit organization which helps to organize local, […]
Posted in computer, New York City | Tagged Hackers on Planet Earth, privacy, Toastmasters, Tor
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-05
The New York Times just published “Using Patient Data to Democratize Medical Discovery“. The article talks about activity trackers and Apple’s software suite for reporting health information to Apple devices. It links to the story of a patient named Steven Keating who benefited from having his own health records. Keating’s “The Healing Power of Your […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights | Tagged activity tracking, privacy
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-17
Like everything on this blog, this post is my own personal candid thoughts. I visited an organization working in a similar space as Consumer Reports, and in this post I say some things about me, my organization, and this organization. This post is intended to be entirely positive about everything I saw, because I felt […]
Posted in Boston, clinical research, Consumer Reports, drug, health, non-profit, research, rights | Tagged electronic medical records, privacy
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-10
I live in the United States and I was born in a rural area. Rural areas of the United States have a higher percentage of gun owners, and from growing up there I have native appreciation for the culture of gun rights. There was a passionate minority among the gun-owning culture who had what I […]
Posted in computer, New York City, rights | Tagged privacy