Report: Delay Obama health initiative to address privacy, security concerns

President Obama's “precision medicine initiative” should be put on hold until the administration clarifies the privacy and data-security protections that will offered to the one million patients expected to volunteer for the program, according to a new report by the World Privacy Forum.

“The initiative is nearing its launch point with a goal of collecting the health records and biospecimens of one million volunteers,” notes the report dated May 18. Because the PMI is expected to be managed by...