HealthIT Answers March 5, 2020
By Matt Fisher, Esq
Who owns healthcare data? Who can access healthcare data? Who can control how healthcare data are used? Those three questions can form the basis for going into any number of directions in the discussion around healthcare data. The questions will also spark substantial debate as to the best means of answering.
Trying to come up with a definitive answer is not something that any one person can or should do though. Instead, the questions should serve as a basis for generating an open dialogue among all interested parties. That dialogue can go into issues such as being able to access and collect all data, controlling how the data are used and how profit can be made,...