49 companies sign Open Data pledge for patient safety | Clinical Innovation + Technology

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-09

Summary:

"In an effort to improve patient safety, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced that 49 healthcare technology companies have signed its Open Data Pledge. By agreeing to share their data, the companies will help foster a marketplace of analytics to encourage entrepreneurs to develop novel uses of health data that will improve patient safety and reduce preventable deaths, according to the foundation. If enough medical technology companies share the data their products are purchased for, it allows engineers and researchers to develop predictive algorithms that notify clinicians and patients of dangerous trends. The pledge does not ask any company to share protected or proprietary data or not follow all the privacy laws ..."

Link:

http://www.clinical-innovation.com/topics/interoperability/49-companies-sign-open-data-pledge-patient-safety

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.pledges oa.data oa.medicine oa.biomedicine oa.pharma

Date tagged:

03/09/2016, 17:14

Date published:

03/09/2016, 12:14