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Journal of the Formosan Medical Association (2016) 115, 137e138
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NEWS & PERSPECTIVES
Secondary use of health data
Ju-Chuan Yen a, Wen-Ta Chiu b, Shu-Fen Chu b,
Min-Huei Hsu a,c,*
a Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei
Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
b School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
c Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan, ROC
Received 28 May 2014; received in revised form 26 February 2015; accepted 16 March 2015
With the advent of big data, the application of data analysis raised criticism and complaints from human rights organi-
in various fields has increasingly gained attention. Data zations on the grounds of “violating privacy”. Nonetheless,
analysis is by no means innovative in healthcare industry, the project was initiated on April 1st, 2014, and collected
since the statistics has played an important role in public the clinical data of patients’ visits to primary care physi-
health and clinical medicine for quite a long time. Studies cians of the NHS and stored them in the