Information Age February 24, 2020
Nathalie Moreno, partner at Lewis Silkin, discusses the disruption and monetisation of healthcare data by big tech
Big tech’s disruption of healthcare hasn’t been without its controversy.
Healthcare data has become big tech’s last frontier for innovation, competition and disruption. However, such recent strategic moves into the healthcare industry have not come without concerns from both a competition and privacy law perspective in the eyes of the regulators, healthcare professionals and patients alike.
Clearly, data-driven technologies can provide unprecedented opportunities to offer critical benefits to patients, the healthcare industry and society in general. The prospect of innovative new healthcare services assisted by data analytics legitimises big tech and its contributions to improving individual care, national health services and public health....