Individual medical data are sold and hundreds of billions of yen money is running

ByCarl Glover

Personal information leaks due to hacking and others,Data is sold on the dark webAlthough it says that, in the medical industry, medical data of patients is traded as usual, and it is revealed that the scale is hundreds of billion yen.

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A book revealed that companies are paying hundreds of billions of yen by selling and buying personal medical dataOur Bodies, Our DataAccording to Mr. Adam Tannah, a social scientist who is the author of "Most personal information on medicine such as what kind of illness the patient is suffering from and what surgery has been experienced is sold It is said that it is done.

However, in most cases, information that can identify individuals such as names is deleted from medical data to be bought and sold. According to medical data brokers and others, for example, medical data of a patient named "Jean · Vulgene" is identified by a series of numerals such as "24601" with its name deleted.

ByRyo FUKAsawa

Mr. Tanner said, "I am only sharing my medical information only with my own doctor, but I know that my medical information is sold as data," he said, anonymous I am talking about the current situation that medical data are sold and bought. According to Mr. Tannor, the medical data of the patient is being traded after being narrowed down to the four pieces of information "sex" "age" "symptom" "residential district".

Data MiningAs a data minor who lives as a business, in addition to patient medical data, drug store chainRite AidYaCVSIt seems to get data such as "Which prescription medicine will be sold to whom?"

ByIlmicrofono Oggiono

Also, think tankThe Century FoundationNewly released byreport"The patient does not participate in the component of medical data (which is to be bought and sold) by the vice president of CVS because the patient's name and information such as prescription medicine are not connected" A comment is written.

However, in other forms of data derived from fitness devices and search engines, since it is completely unregulated, it contains information that can identify individuals such as "address". Then, a method of estimating detailed information of a patient by cross-referencing two different data such as personal information other than medical-related and medical data is also prevalent, and such predictive data as Tanner said is "surprising I have the degree of accuracy I'm sure. "

In addition, Mr. Tanner is a law concerning the portability and responsibility of medical insurance as data and technology used for selling and buying medical informationHIPAA"Data scientists are able to clarify the name of an anonymized patient by making very elaborate guesses and this behavior can bypass the HIPAA law, "I tell you.

ByAndreas siagian

Although it seems that many companies are trading medical data, it is a global company that provides state-of-the-art medical information and advanced technology and services to the medical industry in more than 100 countriesIMS HealthIt is said that it is one of them.

Mr. Tannar points out that "We need to discuss," it is about time to review the sale and purchase of medical data. However, "Because data trading is hundreds of billions of yen transactions, data miners and data brokers do not want to talk about these topics, and they want to sell medical data to opportunities to advance medical science I also argue that it is also becoming popular, "he also mentioned about the fact that the information does not run out easily.

However, even though Mr. Tanner buys and sells medical data in order to advance medical care, even though the importance of confidentiality of data is emphasized due to fear of leakage of personal information, individuals have the option of choosing how to handle data Although we ought to be, we are told that we do not have such options.