Andy Coravos

@AndreaCoravos

CEO . Supporting . Biometric data + engineering. Digital rights advocate. Former . Views are my own. She/her.

SF / BOS
Joined September 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Nov 2018

    Wrote an op-ed for on ethical digital medicine: swapping out pills for AI-driven medical products (And why we need better social contracts to make this shift safely and effectively)

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    Jan 30

    Bloomberg has just released a draft of the EARN IT Act bill, which goes after end-to-end encryption under the guise of amending Section 230. I just posted a 5200-word blog post about it.

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    Jan 27

    Fun fact: some people have an internal narrative and some don't As in, some people's thoughts are like sentences they "hear", and some people just have abstract non-verbal thoughts, and have to consciously verbalize them And most people aren't aware of the other type of person

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    Bob Nelsen is very smart, credible, a futurist. He knows virology. His analyses are grim.

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    Jan 30

    This is your regular reminder to people in the tech industry that the choices you make in your job matter.

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    Jan 29
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    Jan 27

    New: leaked documents, data, contracts show how hugely popular antivirus Avast now harvests internet browsing data and sells it for millions of dollars. Clients included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft. Documents show a product called "All Clicks Feed"

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    New from DOJ: "Practice Fusion admits that it solicited and received kickbacks from a major opioid company in exchange for utilizing its EHR software to influence physician prescribing of opioid pain medications."

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    Must-read, describing experiences of as he tries to get own hlth records (unsuccessfully), & has his meds misrecorded- i.e. the usual. He also lambasts anti-interop of certain EHR co's. Resonates w/recent

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    Jan 28

    I got a weird SMS. I didn't click. Researchers concluded it was a hacking attempt with Israeli software by hackers linked to Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials: no comment. The Israeli company: not all hack attempts use our products. Be careful out there, kids.

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    Facebook: We don’t assemble “shadow profiles” and users can download their data. Also Facebook: Here’s a metric ton of tracking data that hasn’t been previously disclosed until this year’s

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    Jan 29

    After two years of not using Facebook - I logged in today to check out this new tool that shows what Facebook has been tracking. Despite this, they have seen my every move on the Internet - this is creepier than I had imagined.

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    Jan 28

    network protocols

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    There's "precision medicine" and "rabbit hole medicine" This report represents the latter. How to collect an avg $8,000/person, do many tests to get lots of abnormal findings (for more testing) and "health outcome and benefits were not measured"

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    Jan 29

    When it comes to the sensitive information consumers share with health apps, “buyer beware” is woefully inadequate. Join over 22,000 consumers who signed our petition demanding better from makers of health apps.

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    How should we redefine patient safety in the era of digital? Yesterday, our Executive Director led this discussion at the inaugural Patient Safety in a Digital World symposium

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    Jan 29

    This is the sharpest movie of the Sun ever made. Even at this fine resolution, the scale is enormous; each plasma cell here is about the size of Texas. via

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    Jan 26

    FDA approvals (just within last year) with no control arm: tazemetostat - 62 patients avapritinib - 43 pts enfortumab vedotin - 125 pts zanubrutinib - 86 pts entrectinib - 54 pts selinexor - 83 pts (subgroup analysis)

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    A lab found toxic "forever chemicals" in the drinking water of 43 US cities. They tested 44 cities.

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    Jan 24

    I just read Christensen's "How Will You Measure Your Life" and found it to be powerful in thinking about how to make the most of our time here on earth. Inspired by his lead, we ended up defining our own family values. RIP to this influential pioneer.

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