While privacy advocates push for greater data use restrictions, an op-ed for The Hill looks at how doing so could carry a negative consequence for individual patient health outcomes and broader public health goals. The authors write that rather than focusing on imposing greater restrictions for health data, more effort should be placed on developing better de-identification techniques to protect useful data. Using Amazon’s interest and expansion into the health care field, the authors write that establishing a “Digital Hippocratic Oath” would demand “that health-care providers effectively balance privacy and usability to the benefit of individual patients and broader public health goals.”
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