Hated the Facebook experiment? You’ll hate what’s next for health care.
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Facebook isn't the only company that wants to capitalize on information collected from millions of people do do research. Health care systems want to use the immense sea of data in patients' medical records to try and improve health and reduce costs.
For example, doctors might use patterns in hospital data to determine whether a patient is at high risk of cardiac arrest and should be admitted to the intensive care unit. The data used to make those decisions will be collected from thousands — or millions — of hospital visits, raising questions about the security of the data, and whether it's appropriate to use it to make medical decisions for individual patients.
I. Glenn Cohen is a professor of health law and ethics at Harvard Law School. He recently co-authored a paper on the new role that data is starting to play in health, and the legal and ethical wrinkles introduced by using that data to make medical decisions. We discussed some of those problems, and how they might be handled in the future.
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