Untapping the full potential of Germany's Digital Health Care Act for national and global Research
About two weeks ago, the German Government paved the way for Germany's Digital Health Care Act - #DVG. It did include #DigitalHealthApps on prescription for Statutory Health Insured Patients and enhanced drive for telemedicine. Furthermore, it set the basis for improved research and innovation. #TreatmentData from about 72m Germans are made available for research via #IQWIG. In the weeks prior and post Governmental approval, data privacy was a #HotTopic.
Health Data Research Opportunities of Germany's Digital Health Care Act
The decision paper declared the state of the art data privacy measures. The generic phrase is a bit vague about how de-identified health records are made available to academia for research purposes. In public discussion, anonymized data was referenced. A study published at Nature revealed that 99.98% of people would be correctly re-identified in any dataset by 15 demographic attributes only. Read the full study via Nature: Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models
An option is generating #SyntheticData that could be shared even further with Entrepreneurs and Industry.
There are three ways to synthesize data. Full synthetic, partial synthetic and hybrid synthetic data are possible. Read more via A Review Of Synthetic Data Generation Methods.
What is your view? Are you in favor of sharing synthetic data with Entrepreneurs to the benefit of innovative Digital Health services? Looking forward to your feedback!
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5 年If any one would be interested in using gold standard AI diagnosis to analyze these records :) check out EndlessMedicalAPI....
Brilliant read of Robin R?hm on synthetic data and the re-identification risk of outliers.
The legislation is far too liberal and collides with European privacy laws. It also opens the door for the Amazons, Microsofts and the Googles to participate in the management of data of german citizens. After all the negative experiences with privacy protection in the UK a brave leap forward - but jumping out of a 10th floor window is also a brave leap!
Thank you all, for the brilliant inputs here in the comments and further in offline conversations! Overall there was consent that (1) synthetic data is an excellent way for teaching students and when applied well deriving clinical research insights for chronic diseases. (2) Synthetic data should not be limited to researchers. Instead, a wider audience like startups will be empowered to foster innovation.? Special thanks to: Bart De Witte, Thomas Wilckens (托馬斯), Michael Platzer, Hanan Drobiner, MSc, MBA, Julia Hagen, Dr. Alexandra Jorzig and all others? that contributed!!!!
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5 年What an amazing advancement. Will Germany be the #leader in #DigitalHealth? I’ve heard UK is also very advanced! Exciting news we really take important actions to make preventive healthcare a reality !