Strengthening Health Information Infrastructure For Health Care Quality Governance: Good Practices, New Opportunities and Data Privacy Protection Challenges: Key Findings

Some countries have been able to balance privacy rights and rights to health and health care in a way that permits privacy-respectful data use for monitoring population health and the quality of health care. There are very good reasons for allowing data use, including to improve health outcomes and patient safety and to make good decisions about the wise use of health care resources. In other countries, well-intended laws and policies to protect privacy and to reduce the potential misuse of personal health information have limited data use.