Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108449670 ISBN 13: 9781108449670

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records - can we really differentiate between big data and health big data? Will health big data be used for good, such as to improve drug safety, or ill, as in insurance discrimination? Will it disrupt health care (and the health care system) as we know it? Will it be possible to protect our health privacy? What barriers will there be to collecting and utilizing health big data? What role should law play, and what ethical concerns may arise? This timely, groundbreaking volume explores these questions and more from a variety of perspectives, examining how law promotes or discourages the use of big data in the health care sphere, and also what we can learn from other sectors.

About this title

Book Description:

This book is a must-read for academics, policymakers, and health researchers and practitioners interested in the legal and ethical questions and challenges of effectively using big data to improve health. What are the key opportunities, how can we protect privacy, what sort of research oversight is needed, what are the implications for medical innovation, and what paradigm shifts should we expect from the increasing use of big data in the health care sphere?

About the Author:

I. Glenn Cohen is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. He is the author of more than 80 articles in venues like the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Nature, and the Harvard Law Review, and the author, editor, or co-editor of eight books. He has appeared on or been covered by PBS, NPR, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Jones, the New York Times, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, among other media venues. He has been a Radcliffe Institute and Hastings Center Fellow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108449670
• ISBN 13: 9781108449670
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Cohen I. Glenn, Lynch Holly Fernandez, Vayena Effy, Gasser Urs