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Many healthcare providers, health plans, business associates and similar organizations are undertaking big health data initiatives involving the collection, analysis and sharing of large volumes of health data.
Their potential is a better understanding of clinical care outcomes, ways to reduce healthcare costs, and the exploration of new medical discoveries, but they also come with critical privacy and security caveats that must be carefully addressed, says privacy attorney Iliana Peters of the law firm Polsinelli.
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