HIT Consultant January 8, 2020
Using Data Privacy to Empower Health Research
The importance of data security and data privacy policies have recently come under scrutiny due to revelations around Google’s Project Nightingale. The initiative with Ascension, the nation’s largest nonprofit health system, granted Google access to medical records of more than 50 million individuals in 21 states and may hinder the trajectory of health discovery by eroding “consumer” trust.
While historically it might have been a safe harbor to stay within the letter of the law, consumer sentiment around health data privacy, control, and opportunity has shifted dramatically in the last year. The biggest challenge affecting the sharing of individual data is the establishment of trust between the individual and the researcher. Mistrust...
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