“People should have access to their own health data,” said Barbara Evans, director of the University of Houston Law Center’s Center on Biotechnology and Law, during a Health Privacy Summit Thursday. “Clouds of data are generated about us and the federal government did well regulating an individual’s right to access the data with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,” but now large amounts of data that are generated by items like wearables aren't protected by HIPAA, Evans said. There needs to be a HIPAA-equivalent for that data, she said. It’s not going to be too long before patients have far more information than any particular provider due to wearables and other devices that contain sensors like cellphones, said Mark Scrimshire, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. The government should step in and ensure that data is not used against us, Scrimshire said.
More funding needs to be made available to emergency service organizations to further develop next-generation 911 services at the state level, experts said in interviews last week. Whether it’s looking at increasing 911 fees, like Pennsylvania, or seeking federal funding like a regional group in Illinois, they said that states are working to figure out how to improve their systems. States are grappling with accurately pinpointing the location of cellphone callers, and Connecticut recently started testing a system to do so. Money also remains a concern.
More funding needs to be made available to emergency service organizations to further develop next-generation 911 services at the state level, experts said in interviews last week. Whether it’s looking at increasing 911 fees, like Pennsylvania, or seeking federal funding like a regional group in Illinois, they said that states are working to figure out how to improve their systems. States are grappling with accurately pinpointing the location of cellphone callers, and Connecticut recently started testing a system to do so. Money also remains a concern.
The ITU's slow pace of regulatory change was a frustration to panelists at an FCBA event Thursday marking the first launch 50 years ago of a commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit, Intelsat 1. The ITU is responsible for overseeing the assigning of satellite orbits and coordinating global use of radio spectrum. “You may not always agree with" the ITU, said Brian Fontes, National Emergency Number Association CEO. “You may certainly not agree with its time schedule." The body's existence was "a step in the right direction" from not having anything to coordinate frequency use globally, he said. While the speed of technology change and commercial pressures are faster than the ITU moves, “It’s the only system we have,” said David Leive, ex-Intelsat general counsel. The ITU is slow moving, said Internet lawyer Henry Goldberg of Goldberg Godles. He lauded PanAmSat co-founder Rene Anselmo, who helped break the monopoly held by Intelsat: PanAmSat "was a huge success.” The ITU had no immediate comment. “The international consensus style and the U.S. style of encouraging technology don’t really mesh very well” in the ITU, Goldberg said, saying “they work out eventually.”
Having recently gone national with its subscription-based Roamio over-the-air (OTA) DVR and streaming player (see 1503040022), Tivo has “the ability to meet the needs of an increasing number of consumers who want to put together their own bundle of an over-the-air DVR, and streaming services like Hulu and Netflix, enabling operators to thereby sustain a video relationship with so-called cord-cutters,” TiVo CEO Tom Rogers said Tuesday on an earnings call.
SHANGHAI -- An irony at the inaugural CES Asia was the repeated show messaging to “follow us on Twitter” in a country where Twitter as well as Facebook, Google and Instagram are blocked under the Chinese government’s policy of Internet censorship. If China doesn't allow use of social media, including Twitter, it's "clearly their right to do as a country,” CEA President Gary Shapiro told a CES Asia media briefing (see 1505260009).
Having recently gone national with its subscription-based Roamio over-the-air (OTA) DVR and streaming player (see 1503040022), Tivo has “the ability to meet the needs of an increasing number of consumers who want to put together their own bundle of an over-the-air DVR, and streaming services like Hulu and Netflix, enabling operators to thereby sustain a video relationship with so-called cord-cutters,” TiVo CEO Tom Rogers said Tuesday on an earnings call.
SHANGHAI -- An irony at the inaugural CES Asia was the repeated show messaging to “follow us on Twitter” in a country where Twitter as well as Facebook, Google and Instagram are blocked under the Chinese government’s policy of Internet censorship. If China doesn't allow use of social media, including Twitter, it's "clearly their right to do as a country,” CEA President Gary Shapiro told a CES Asia media briefing (see 1505260009).
SHANGHAI -- An irony at the inaugural CES Asia was the repeated show messaging to “follow us on Twitter” in a country where Twitter as well as Facebook, Google and Instagram are blocked under the Chinese government’s policy of Internet censorship. If China doesn't allow use of social media, including Twitter, it's "clearly their right to do as a country,” CEA President Gary Shapiro told a CES Asia media briefing (see 1505260009).
Rules that will require device manufacturers to create a simple mechanism to switch between a main program audio feed to an emergency alert on the secondary audio stream are outside the authority granted to the FCC by Congress in the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, said Commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O’Rielly at Thursday’s agency meeting. The rule was part of a 2nd report and order requiring pay-TV carriers to pass through such screen-crawl TV alerts to tablets and smartphones streaming multichannel video programming distributors' content through the companies' apps, as expected (see 1505120027). Pai and O’Rielly voted with the rest of the FCC to approve the order and an accompanying Further NPRM, but dissented over the simple mechanism portion.