Big data and public health: navigating privacy laws to maximize potential.
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Public Health Reports / March–April 2015 / Volume 130 The ability to generate and use large amounts of information about patient and population health, health-care treatment, and the outcomes of care represents a fundamental breakthrough in health-care quality improvement and population health management. Creating and using what has become known as “big data” raises many legal issues, as this installment of Law and the Public’s Health describes.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Public health reports
دوره 130 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015