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who owns health data

This is an interesting post by Tim O’Reilly pointing out one of the disconnects with data in the health care system: who actually owns the data? The patient? Most health care systems would probably argue against that, but as we want to move to a system of personalized medicine it will be difficult to argue that the patient should not own their own data and be able to decide which providers it should be shared with.

The world of integrating all of the electronic medical record systems that we will be seeing will be a messy and complicated one.

A Manifesto on Health Data Rights - O’Reilly Radar