“One way to think about the troves of digital health data now accumulating,” says Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal, M.D., in an opinion piece for Annals of Internal Medicine (May 2, 2017) “is as a new natural resource.” And, as with any resource that “must be extracted, transported, and refined,” there are costs and risks involved.
Minimizing the Risks of Digital Health Data While Reaping the Rewards
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