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University of Michigan Law School

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2019

Big data

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Biobanks As Innovation Infrastructure For Translational Medicine, W. Nicholson Price Ii Apr 2019

Biobanks As Innovation Infrastructure For Translational Medicine, W. Nicholson Price Ii

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Biobanks represent an opportunity for the use of big data to drive translational medicine. Precision medicine demands data to shape treatments to individual patient characteristics; large datasets can also suggest new uses for old drugs or relationships between previously unlinked conditions. But these tasks can be stymied when data are siloed in different datasets, smaller biobanks, or completely proprietary private resources. This hampers not only analysis of the data themselves, but also efforts to translate data-based insights into actionable recommendations and to transfer the discovered technology into a commercialization pipeline. Cross-project technological innovation, development, and validation are all more difficult …


Privacy In The Age Of Medical Big Data, W. Nicholson Price Ii, I. Glenn Cohen Jan 2019

Privacy In The Age Of Medical Big Data, W. Nicholson Price Ii, I. Glenn Cohen

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Big data has become the ubiquitous watch word of medical innovation. The rapid development of machine-learning techniques and artificial intelligence in particular has promised to revolutionize medical practice from the allocation of resources to the diagnosis of complex diseases. But with big data comes big risks and challenges, among them significant questions about patient privacy. Here, we outline the legal and ethical challenges big data brings to patient privacy. We discuss, among other topics, how best to conceive of health privacy; the importance of equity, consent, and patient governance in data collection; discrimination in data uses; and how to handle …