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In a recent JAMA Network Viewpoint, Matthew McCoy (UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy), @AriBFriedman (Penn EM Residency) & Allison Hoffman (@PennLaw) analyze the scope & legal implications of tracking technologies on hospital websites rb.gy/40bri

Excited to launch our 2023-24 Webinar series featuring international experts incl. Brendan McEntee, Matthew McCoy, Constantin Aliferis, @abbrody, Yuri Quintana, PhD, FACMI, Sean Mooney, Irene Chen, Anne Turner, Prof Sophie Scott CBE, and Fei Wang. To register: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

A new piece by LDI Senior Fellows Matthew McCoy @AriBFriedman and Allison Hoffman analyze the scope and legal implications of hospital website tracking. Learn more about the ethical and pragmatic reasons hospitals have to limit tracking below. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

New paper in JAMA Internal Medicine led by Yale School of Medicine student Shamik Bhat with Reshma Ramachandran Joseph Ross on medical product industry tries with patient advocacy organization leadership jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Website tracking occurs everywhere, even in medical journal websites. What's the harm? Threats to privacy, and data from physicians and patients who read articles can be used to create targeted advertising as they engage with other websites. Learn more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

New paper from me (USC Price School @SchaefferCenter) and Dan Carpenter (@HarvardGovernm1) on the revolving door in health care regulation -- In Health Affairs (paywall - DM me) Ever wonder how many govt folks enter from and exit to industry? We did too! healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.137… 1/

Did you know 98.6% of hospital websites share your data with third-party trackers? Penn LDI is competing in #STATMadness! In our entry, Senior Fellows Matthew McCoy, @AriBFriedman & Raina Merchant, MD MSHP FAHA found nearly all U.S. hospital websites share your health data. THREAD 🧵⬇️

STAT Forbes Penn Penn Medicine Children's Hospital Vote for LDI here: statnews.com/feature/stat-m…

After proposing their Ethical Data Practices framework for companies that process personal data, LDI Senior Fellows Matthew McCoy, Zeke Emanuel, and Steve Joffe respond to peer commentaries. See their responses below: ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Check out NEW research in JAMA Network Open by LDI Fellows @AriBFriedman and Matthew McCoy.⤵️

'Fair Allocation of GLP-1 and Dual GLP-1–GIP Receptor Agonists' is out in NEJM (ungated) nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… We propose a framework to guide goverments, professional societies, & docs in allocation choices about drugs like semaglutide (#Ozempic/#Wegovy) when demand > supply

New invited commentary published in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine! I discuss direct-to-consumer pharmacies and whether they can improve access to medicines for patients, as well as respond to a recent study published by Hussain Lalani, MD, MPH, MSc Frazer Tessema Aaron Kesselheim Ben Rome lnkd.in/gkXzCDYW

In response to the global shortage of obesity and diabetes drugs like tirzepatide, LDI Fellows have proposed a fair-allocation framework that enables evaluation of the ethics of current allocation practices.

Fed up with the terrible state of privacy on the web, a former Google engineer has built a search engine to uncover every privacy violation on the web. My latest for WIRED, on Tim Libert and his new tool, webXray: wired.com/story/webxray-…

Please consider applying to UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy yourself or sharing this opportunity within your networks. We are looking forward to hearing from talented junior bioethics scholars and are open to expertise in a range of topics! apply.interfolio.com/153720

In The Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Matthew McCoy, Johan Dellgren, and I argue that more public engagement in health financing decisions won’t inherently lead to more equity. Policymakers should focus instead on substantive policy decisions to drive meaningful progress. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

Great job, Anna and Eric! Anna presented our work demonstrating the inconsistency of LLM responses and how attackers might take advantage (doi.org/10.1145/370659…); and Eric investigating health-related tracking and deceptive ads (doi.org/10.1145/370659…) Matthew McCoy