Question

The amount of electronic patient data is enormous. As long as it is deidentified (i.e., you cannot tell who the patient was), do you think this data should be used to learn about diseases, outbreaks, patterns, etc.? How do you perceive this data to be of value? In what ways do you think it should be used? Who should extract the data? Who should be responsible for studying the data to determine what can be leant from it?

Answer 1

This data can be used to learn about diseases, outbreaks, patterns, etc. as this is a data that is representing the facts. This is an actual data of the various diseases and their prevalence. This data is of value as the trends of this data can become the basis of some future scientific research work. The research organizations and physicians and hospitals should extract this data to use it for taking care of the patients and forming future research proposals. Physicians and scientists should be responsible for studying the data to determine what can be learned from it