Venue: The School of Medicine Building, Britton Smith Foundation Lecture Theatre – 6:30pm .
A reception will be held in the Atrium prior to the lecture at 5:30pm

Big Data offers both great promise but also serious perils for healthcare, as it does for other institutions of modern life. The rush to turn the promise into reality, however, without understanding how Big Data analytics change those institutions, has important implications, both positive and negative. For the institution(s) of health care delivery, the use of Big Data will require changes in information governance that affect not only the security and privacy of health information, but also the role of patients, the profession of medicine, and the meaning of health itself.

Denise Anthony is Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives, and Professor and past-Chair (2007-11) in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College.  From 2008-2013 she was Research Director of the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS) at Dartmouth. Dr. Anthony’s work explores issues of cooperation, trust and privacy in a variety of settings, from health care delivery to micro-credit borrowing groups. Her current work examines the use of information technology in health care, including effects on quality, on the organization of health care, as well as the implications for the privacy and security of protected health information. 

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