Keen, J, Calinescu, R, Paige, R et al. (1 more author) (2013) Big data + politics = open data: The case of health care data in England. Policy and Internet, 5 (2). pp. 228-243. ISSN 1944-2866
Abstract
There is a great deal of enthusiasm about the prospects for Big Data held in health care systems around the world. Health care appears to offer the ideal combination of circumstances for its exploitation, with a need to improve productivity on the one hand and the availability of data that can be used to identify opportunities for improvement on the other. The enthusiasm rests on two assumptions. First, that the data sets held by hospitals and other organizations, and the technological infrastructure needed for their acquisition, storage, and manipulation, are up to the task. Second, that organizations outside health care systems will be able to access detailed datasets. We argue that both assumptions can be challenged. The article uses the example of the National Health Service in England to identify data, technology, and information governance challenges. The public acceptability of third party access to detailed health care datasets is, at best, unclear.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 Policy Studies Organization. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Keen, J., Calinescu, R., Paige, R. and Rooksby, J. (2013), Big data + politics = open data: The case of health care data in England. Policy & Internet, 5: 228–243., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/1944-2866.POI330. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
Keywords: | Big Data; Open Data; health care; information technologies |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Centre for Health Services Research (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2017 12:04 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2018 09:16 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/1944-2866.POI330 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/1944-2866.POI330 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:92119 |