Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics - Grand Format

When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records - can we really differentiate between big data and health big data ? Will health big data be used for good, suçh as to improve drug safety, or ill, as in insurance discrimination ? Will it disrupt healthcare (and the healthcare system) as we know it ? Will it be possible to protect our health privacy ? What barriers will there be to collecting and using health big data ? What role should law play, and what ethical concerns may arise ? This timely, groundbreaking volume explores these questions and more from a variety of perspectives, examining how law promotes or discourages the use of big data in the healthcare sphere, as well as what we can learn from other sectors.