I searched for the medicines I get from my GP and it turns out I'm the only one getting them. You can see the blips in the graph from zero when I got the prescriptions!
Isn't this a privacy issue? There are some very small GP offices. From the HSCIC FAQ:
I am prescribed a drug for a rare condition; can I be identified in this dataset?
All practice level information down to presentation level is being released, but no
information about patients is contained in the data. It is not possible to identify
individual patients in the data.
In line with the recent High Court ruling on the release of abortion statistics, data can
be released unless an individual can be identified from the data or from other data
that is already in the public domain. The release of practice level prescribing data
does not enable the identification of individual patients.
If you are the only patient receiving a certain drug in your practice then the number
of items prescribed and their cost for that medicine will be in this dataset but it will
not show which patient received it. Note that information about the price of drugs is
already available in the public domain.
That last paragraph doesn't make sense. I can easily imagine someone who knows a friend/relative has a rare condition using a data source like this to see how often it's being prescribed, and (perhaps) whether they're taking the medicine as often as they're supposed to.
That was my first thought. I think it's brilliant that people with background knowledge can assess unusual prescription patterns at GP practices, but this is bound to release data that can give you a pretty good idea of [some of] what some individuals with a particular rare condition are being prescribed.
A huge number of people in the UK are on BT's cheapest package, you get a 38mb FTTC connection and a 20gb cap. These are the sort of people who won't even know that a feature like this could even exist, talk about be switched off! I think it's almost criminal that 20gb capped Internet can be advertised as being suitable for a family home in 2015.
Hello - I would really appreciate feedback on my new startup. We are developing scented patches that inform a user that a WiFi connection is secure and legitimate. Thanks!
I heard about this one company that had a similar idea but implemented it via a high frequency acoustic signature; the higher the frequency the stronger the encryption. It apparently turned into this nightmare of competing signatures and people couldn't think straight near the more secure connections. This scent technology seems to be less intrusive.
When you get different scents, will the wiffi emitters automatically sychronised with other nearby emitters so the distinct carrier smells don't interact and cause service ambiguity?
