Abstract
The emergence of New Data Sources (NDS) in healthcare is revolutionising
traditional electronic health records in terms of data availability, storage,
and access. Increasingly, clinicians are using NDS to build a virtual holistic
image of a patient's health condition. This research is focused on a review and
analysis of the current legislation and privacy rules available for healthcare
professionals. NDS in this project refers to and includes patient-generated
health data, consumer device data, wearable health and fitness data, and data
from social media.
This project reviewed legal and regulatory requirements for New Zealand,
Australia, the European Union, and the United States to establish the ground
reality of existing mechanisms in place concerning the use of NDS. The outcome
of our research is to recommend changes and enhancements required to better
prepare for the 'tsunami' of NDS and applications in the currently evolving
data-driven healthcare area and precision or personalised health initiatives
such as Precision Driven Health (PDH) in New Zealand.