It’s 2021. There has been a steady trickle of stories about what happens to people’s health data. There’s no concrete evidence of harm in any of these stories, but a crisis of confidence has built up over time. One hospital has been the subject of a cyberattack, but it is not yet clear whether sensitive data has been stolen and deciphered.Controversy about the use of health data is nothing new. Five years earlier in 2016, 2.2% of patients had exercised their right to opt out of data being shared beyond the NHS information centre after a botched attempt to link up information from patients’ GP records and hospital activity records.
from Digital Health | Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/t/health-care-social-media/p/4067796662/2016/08/20/future-nhs-what-if-people-controlled-their-own-health-data
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