Social impact of big data in Australian healthcare

Title: Social impact of big data in Australian healthcare
Creator: Summons, Peter; Regan, Brian
Relation: Les Cahiers du Numérique Vol. 12, Issue 1-2, p. 13-29
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3166/LCN.12.1-2.13-29
Publisher: Lavoisier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: This paper illustrates some of the potential risks that may arise through the application of big data processing and data mining applications when applied to Healthcare data within Australia. This is only possible when a common linking factor exists and can be used to aggregate the many repositories of data collected for an individual. Using the specific case of Australia and the international understanding of big data in healthcare, the paper posits that the risks are international but that the perception of risk has a dependence on culture and attitudes and that the treatment, extent and effect of risk is determined differentially by a country's existing laws and its perception of future risk due to new applications of big data.
Subject: social impact; big data; Australian healthcare
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1349104
Identifier: uon:30336
Identifier: ISSN:1622-1494
Language: eng
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