Ginsburg et al. describe their vision of personalized medicine as follows: “tailored care is given for every individual
based on their specific, molecular disease will become the standard of care. In the prototypical office visit of 2015, the
physician will examine a patient’s genetic profile (stored on CD ROMs or equivalent), lifestyle, and results from objective
molecular screening and monitoring tests. Algorithms, derived from previous research efforts, will be used to compute the likelihood that a patient develops a host of chronic diseases.” [12]. In this paper, we do not focus on the algorithms that are needed to realize this vision. Instead, we show why MyPHRMachines should be used instead of CD ROMs to realize the above
vision, mostly focusing on the PHR data privacy issue.