From rhoskins@home.com Fri Apr 16 06:08:59 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA41446 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 06:08:58 -0700 Received: from ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA30737 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 06:08:58 -0700 Received: from c501552a ([24.5.121.123]) by ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA4037 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 06:08:57 -0700 Message-ID: <003b01be880a$4735a0e0$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Richard E. Hoskins" To: References: <3716229A.50075407@fast.net> Subject: Re: WAPHGIS: GIS & privacy issues Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 06:08:53 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Ric: This doc will get handed around. What are you using to do the geocoding? We have had good luck with Centrus. Dick Hoskins WA State Dept of Health ----- Original Message ----- From: Ric Skinner To: Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 10:32 AM Subject: Re: WAPHGIS: GIS & privacy issues > FYI, attached is a copy of the draft confidentiality guidelines currently in > use by the NJ State Cancer Registry. I would be particularly interested in > hearing from others regarding the GIS & confidentiality issue. We are > developing a NJSCR GIS and our first major task is to geocode 800,000+ > records for 1979-1997. > > Ric Skinner > Research Scientist -- GIS > NJ Dept. of Health & Senior Services > Cancer Epidemiology Services > 3635 Quakerbridge Rd. > P.O. Box 369 > Trenton, NJ 08625-0369 > Phone: 609-588-3500 > FAX: 609-588-3638 > wskinner@fast.net > > and > > Co-Chair > 2nd International Health Geographics Conference (in planning) > 1st IHGC website: www.jhsph.edu/ihgc > > "Hoskins, Richard E." wrote: > > > Colleagues: Perhaps you can respond to the message below. Please share > > your responses with the listserve if you also contact her directly. If an > > > > agency were to draw up a set of confidentiality guidelines, what are the > > issues? Why is this important? What problems have you had displaying, > > using maps with sensitive data? What guidelines or policies does your > > organization have in place generally and how does that impact the use of > > GIS? Have you had an instance where GIS use compromised someone's > > privacy? Do you know who really knows all about this? If you have written > > > > about this, could we have access to your papers or a citation? > > > > Thanks > > > > Richard E. Hoskins > > eMAIL: REH0303@doh.wa.gov > > tel: 360-236-4270 > > fax:360-236-4245 > > > > Washington State Public Health & GIS listserve > > WAPHGIS@u.washington.edu > > WA DOH & NW Center for Public Health Practice > > at the Univ WA in Seattle > > > > ********************* Forwarding Message ********************* > > Dick > > > > We've been discussing this topic in light of the agency work around > > confidentiality and in a data release group that is working to develop an > > > > agency policy around data release. We are looking into feeding this topic > > > > into a regional conference, and I was interested in knowing if there are > > any "industry" guidelines around GIS and health information in > > particular, and if you could point me to those or to knowledgeable > > persons that we could discuss with or invite as presenters. Thanks for > > the help! > > > > Vicki Hohner, Data Products Manager > > Hospital and Patient Data Systems > > WA State Department of Health > > Phone: (360) 236-4211 > > FAX: (360) 664-8579 > > MS: 7811 > > Internet: VKH0303@DOH.WA.GOV > > -- > > > > .