John Wilbanks: Let’s pool our medical data | Video on TED.com

Use the link to access the TED Talks video introduced as follows: "When you're getting medical treatment, or taking part in medical testing, privacy is important; strict laws limit what researchers can see and know about you. But what if your medical data could be used -- anonymously -- by anyone seeking to test a hypothesis? John Wilbanks wonders if the desire to protect our privacy is slowing research, and if opening up medical data could lead to a wave of health care innovation. Imagine the discoveries that could result from a giant pool of freely available health and genomic data. John Wilbanks is working to build it"