Tagged: healthcare records

Our healthcare records outlive us. It’s time to decide what happens to the data once we’re gone. - Guest Work

Guest Author • Aug 07, 2017 •

• Big Data,
• death,
• health data,
• health records,
• healthcare records,
• social licence

By Jon Cornwall, Victoria University of Wellington Death is inevitable. The creation of healthcare records about every complaint and ailment we seek treatment for is also a near-certainty. Data about patients is a vital cog in the provision of efficient health services. Our study explores what happens to those healthcare records after you die. We focus on … Read More

What happens to our health records when we die? - News

Jean Balchin • Jul 21, 2017 •

• Data,
• Digital rights management,
• healthcare records,
• technology

Leaps and strides in digital data acquisition and storage has lead to the phenomenon of electronic mortality, where digital data — from medical records to genomic information — can exist, and be accessed, for a potentially infinite period. Consequently, there are major ramifications in a variety of different areas. In particular, health research relies of large data sets. All over the … Read More