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Let's pool our medical data

John Wilbanks · TED

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About

When you're getting medical treatment, or taking part in medical testing, privacy is important; strict laws limit what researchers can see and know about you. But what if your medical data could be used -- anonymously -- by anyone seeking to test a hypothesis? John Wilbanks wonders if the desire to protect our privacy is slowing research, and if opening up medical data could lead to a wave of health care innovation.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2012
Speaker
John Wilbanks
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Computer science
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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