Stop the privatization of health data : Nature News Comment - 0 views
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Dennis OConnor on 28 Jul 18"We believe that closed-data and closed-algorithm business models in health - at scale - will hamper scientific progress by blocking the discovery of diverse ways to examine and interpret health data. Longer term, they could increase rather than reduce inequalities and injustices. It is not hard to picture a future in which companies are able to trade people's disease profiles, unbeknown to the patients. Or one in which health decisions are abstruse and difficult to challenge, and advances in understanding are used to aggressively market health-related services to people - regardless of whether those services actually benefit their health."