Background The secondary use of deidentified but not anonymized patient data is a
promising approach for enabling precision medicine and learning health care systems. In …

Background The use of medical data for research purposes requires an informed consent of
the patient that is compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In the context …

Secondary use of health data has a vital role in improving and advancing medical
knowledge. While digital health records offer scope for facilitating the flow of data to …

Background As biobank research has become increasingly widespread within biomedical
research, study-specific consent to each study, a model derived from research involving …

Background Health data holds great potential for improved treatments. Big data research
and machine learning models have been shown to hold great promise for improved …

This paper explores some key discrepancies between two sets of normative requirements
applicable to the research use of personal data and human biological materials:(a) the data …

Purpose Biomedical research is being catalyzed by the vast amount of data rapidly collected
through the application of information technologies (IT). Despite IT advances, the methods …

Background The aim of the German Medical Informatics Initiative is to establish a national
infrastructure for integrating and sharing health data. To this, Data Integration Centers are …

The research exemption implemented in the new EU General Data Protection Regulation
(EU-GDPR) gives member states leeway in determining whether patient consent is required …

Abstract While Specific Informed Consent has been the established standard for obtaining
consent for medical research for many years, it does not appear suitable for large-scale …