Overturning Roe: The Meteor that Hit Health Care

<p class="p1">Hello and welcome to Informatics in the Round,  a podcast designed to help everyone become a part of the dialog about topics in biomedical informatics. </p> <p class="p1">I’m Kevin Johnson, a physician and informatics researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. @kbjohnsonmd on Twitter, <a href='http://www.kevinbjohnsonmd.net'>www.kevinbjohnsonmd.net</a> on the web! </p> <p class="p1">The overturning of Roe v. Wade has had a significant impact on our country. What many may not realize is the impact it might have across all of the health care system as we know it, including the informatics community.  However, this episode will enlighten us all about this, and, unfortunately, will probably make a few people lose sleep.</p> <p class="p1">We are joined in this episode by Professor Bradley Malin, Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science, as well as Vice Chair for Research Affairs in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.  He is one of the world’s experts on data privacy, having invented or helped to debunk myths around the most common approaches used to protect electronic medical records from use or to facilitate safe data sharing.  He is an elected fellow of the <a href='https://nam.edu/'>National Academy of Medicine</a> (NAM), the <a href='http://www.amia.org/programs/acmi-fellowship'>American College of Medical Informatics</a> (ACMI), the <a href='https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/iahsi/'>International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics</a> (IAHSI), and the <a href='https://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/about/'>American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)</a>.  In addition, he was honored as a recipient of the <a href='http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/pecase.htm'>Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)</a> from the White House.</p> <p class="p3">Brad is joined by Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, JD, MD. Ellen is an internationally respected leader in the field of law and genomics who holds appointments in Pediat