Bringing Responsible Use of AI to Patient Advocacy Groups
October 30, 2023
Hardly a day goes by that AI isn’t mentioned in a news report or conversation on how technology is affecting our lives. This is also true for discussions about healthcare advancements, from cancer therapies and precision medicine, to simply being able to serve patients better in the limited time doctors…
Breaking the Mental Model: Individual Data Control Can Deliver Better Research
August 23, 2023
The majority of individuals on Luna want to accelerate research and ensure their data is used as they allow. We considered a recent article in Forbes, and we broke down two recent legal opinion articles on medical data privacy and rights when it comes to your data’s application in research…
De-identified, Pseudonymized, Anonymous Data, Oh My!
July 20, 2023
It seems like everywhere we turn these days some aspect of data privacy is in the news with this or that company sharing your data in some form or fashion. Amongst many of these reports are the use of your de-identified data. What is de-identified data and how is it…
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence (AI)
June 22, 2023
By Sanjay John, a software engineer, and Scott Kahn, PhD, the Chief Information and Privacy Officer, at Luna. With the recent launch of ChatGPT, suddenly every tech company has artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. News stories everywhere are expounding on the promise and threat of AI and its family of applications…
A Case for Progressive Institutional Review Boards
March 21, 2023
Innovation is a constant topic in the biomedical research space. The pace of new tools, new techniques, and new discoveries is often hard to keep up with. Researchers and study participants expect innovation to deliver improvements as well as compatibility with new science, new methodologies, and new priorities, all in…
Privacy-Preserving Technologies and Rights-Based Privacy Regulation Compliance
January 22, 2023
New data protection laws have passed in many parts of the world that express the control of data privacy as a human right.