Digital Health February 12, 2020
Patients must be included in the development of strategies designed to gain benefit from NHS data, according to a new report.
The report, NHS Data: Maximising its impact on the health and wealth of the United Kingdom, states benefits to patients and the NHS must be at the heart of any innovation underpinned by the UK’s extensive healthcare data, outlining three key principles to achieve this.
Patients must feel a sense of agency and control over what happens to their data; health data must always be used in a way that is safe, secure, legal and ethical; and there must be a concerted effort to fairly distribute benefits to people across the UK, the authors concluded.
“Get it right, and...
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