Becker's Healthcare May 29, 2020
The increased sharing of patient data as hospitals and health systems research COVID-19 and seek new revenue streams as businesses seek “mining rights” to that data has raised patient privacy concerns.
In a May 28 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine clinicians and researchers highlighted its health system’s approach to “big data” agreements with industry partners. The principles have been applied to thousands of UM patients and research study volunteers since 2018.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, major health systems had already started selling the “mining rights” to their health data, which current law allows as long as the data is deidentified, according to Kara Gavin, a research and...
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