Journal article
Mining the Data Oceans, Profiting on the Margins
Global policy, v 12(6), pp 85-89
Jul 2021
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Abstract
American capitalist medicine has produced a national healthcare system that is the most expensive – and producing the worse outcomes for patients – in the world. For many patients, social inequities and racial disparities embedded throughout the US healthcare system have only deepened and intensified over the last two decades, with very few realizing the promises made by medical technological innovation. Healthcare policy makers are turning to ‘data‐driven healthcare’ as a solution to these endemic problems. Yet the promise that digital technologies and data analytics will solve some of the most vexing questions in medical science, and will make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and equitable, in fact, hides the ongoing, structural inequities and injustices in health care.
Patient data in the hands of Big Tech monopolies further exacerbate systemic inequities. If the health‐data industry were going to step up and demonstrate their mettle, this would be the time to do it.
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- Title
- Mining the Data Oceans, Profiting on the Margins
- Creators
- Mary F. E. Ebeling - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Global policy, v 12(6), pp 85-89
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000681374700011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85111967644
- Other Identifier
- 991019168464804721
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