The European Commission wants to make health data easier to access by 2025 for patients, medics, regulators and researchers in a bid to improve diagnoses, cut unnecessary costs from duplication of medical tests and boost medicine research.
The United States called on China to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview “care givers, former patients and lab workers” in the central city of Wuhan, and ensure its access to medical data and samples.
Biogen Inc. joined a consortium to build a collection of biological and medical data, where the company’s employees who had tested for and recovered from the coronavirus would be able to participate.
Americans may have a false sense of security about the privacy and safety of their personal medical information.