Author: Tim Sandle
Publisher: Digital Journal
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: The following article discusses the need for change in healthcare data. Ethics should be more of a priority for healthcare organizations. The author argues that privacy is not currently being taken seriously enough, and there should be more regulations that healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations must follow. Many countries have laws mandating how to work with health data. This idea is especially important with the rise of big data. As the volume of data grows, it’s essential to have guidelines for handling that data. The author also states that these guidelines should be constantly updated as technology evolves. One solution he offers to the issue of data protection is to aggregate the data so that the “individual level” is obscured. He suggests that this approach would allow analysts to analyze groups in the data while ensuring that individuals’ privacy is protected.