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Institut für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Abt. 2 Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky
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DaDuHealth – Data Access and Data Use in Health Settings (2020-2023)

Legal Provisions Relevant for Access and Use of Health-Related Data for Research Purposes

About

The research group led by Prof. Dr. Vöneky at the University of Freiburg is one of five sub-projects of the interdisciplinary research project “Access to and use of health data in the health care and consumer health sectors for research purposes: An ethical, legal and social analysis” (DaDuHealth), which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Work on the project started in July 2020 and ran until June 2023.  A Project description on the BMBF website can be found  here and further information can be found here.

General Project Description

The use of accumulated health-related data for health research is one of the most promising areas of health innovation. The contexts of data collection and use of data can vary significantly. It includes highly regulated and institutionalised areas such as the use of clinical data generated by the treatment of patients. Furthermore, there is the use of data generated by individuals through the use of mobile devices and wearables, shared on social cloud services and sometimes evaluated by the consumers themselves.

The overarching goal of DaDuHealth is to develop recommendations for the regulation of the access to and the use of health-related data. Therefore, DaDuHealth analyses legal and ethical framework conditions of data use. The project additionally examines institutional guidelines, social trends, consumer behaviour and stakeholder interests in the medical-institutional and consumer health technology sector. Accordingly, the project aims to contribute to the essential ethical, legal and social questions of digitization, Big Data and artificial intelligence in health research and health care. (See also for further information: https://responsible-ai.org/dadu-health/)

Sub-Projects

SP1: Legal Provisions Relevant for Access and Use of Health-Related Data for Research Purposes (PI Silja Vöneky, University of Freiburg) together with Daniel Becker and Onur Seddig (researchers)

SP2: General ethical principles and framework for access to and use of health-related data for research purposes (PI Joachim Boldt, University of Freiburg)

SP3: Ethical tensions and institutional demands of clinical big data collection, integration, access and use (PI Philipp Kellmeyer, University Hospital Freiburg)

SP4: Consumer Health Technology data: User actions and their social contexts (PI Christopher Coenen, KIT Karlsruhe)

SP5: Research Communication and Outreach (PI Oliver Müller, University of Freiburg)

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