Frans van Houten Quotes

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

The data broker industry as it is today does not have constraints and does not have shame. It will sell any information about any person regardless of sensitivity … rape sufferers, victims of domestic violence, police officers home addresses …

One can doubt the sincerity of the technology community’s outrage over the NSA’s surveillance practices—doubt, for example, that the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose company reportedly stores petabytes’ worth of data about its billion-plus active monthly users, was shocked at the thought of mass data collection.

In circumstances involving dramatic technological change, the best solution to privacy concerns may be legislative. A legislative body is well situated to gauge changing public attitudes, to draw detailed lines, and to balance privacy and public safety in a comprehensive way.

Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a powerful tool to transform and modernize the delivery of health care in our country. Health IT is about helping patients and their loved ones.

Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.

I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life.

It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.

I don't want to get into specifics of how I communicate with people, but I will say that people are concerned about being monitored.

I don't have smart speakers in the house because I have a thing about whether they are recording our conversations.

It turns out the most powerful way we can turn the tide on chronic disease is something we have been doing for millennia: That is walking.

The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.