Research on Personal Information Protection towards the usage of Medical Big Data including Genomic Data

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870572
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Medical and hospital managemen; New fields of law
• Research Institution: Nagoya University (2015); Keio University (2014)
• Principal Investigator: FUJITA TAKANORI 名古屋大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (80627646)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 医療個人情報

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A research on personal information protection towards the usage of medical big data including genomic data has been conducted. I focused on 3 features of medical data; 1.Type of information 2.Circumstances of acquisition 3.Usage of information.
There are some problems towards the usage of medical data in Japan, such as transparency and anonymization, and special legislation for healthcare data is needed.

Free Research Field

医事法学