We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.
Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.
The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.
Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.
Hard as it is to imagine, there's a move afoot in Congress to take away the public's free online access to tax-funded medical research findings. That would be bad for medical discovery, bad for patients looking for the latest research results, and another rip-off of the American taxpayer.
I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.