PPT Presentation - CODATA, The Committee on Data for Science

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Codata Conference Beijing 24 October 2006
Challenges in Medical Patients’ Data Management:
a comparative analysis (United States, United
Kingdom, France and Quebec –Canada)
Christian BOURRET & Jean-Pierre CALISTE

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Contents
•Introduction
• Specificity of Medical Patients’ Data
Management
•Different responses in specific national contexts
•Same challenges converging on Interoperability
•Conclusion

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Introduction
•Cooperation in the framework of professional
Master degrees of the Universities of Marne-la-
Vallée and Compiègne.
•Interdisciplinary approach about information-
communication and quality management (with a
constructivist vision).
•Methodology : mainly qualitative, documentation
analysis and interviews.

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1 – Specificity of Medical Patients’ Data (1/2)
•1 -Medical patients’ data :
sensitive (critical),
personal with strong concerns of
confidentiality (privacy).
•2 - Different levels of storage and management.
(For example in France, the compartmentalization between State
and Sickness Insurance)

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1 – Specificity of Medical Patients’ Data (2/2)
•3 - Restricting legislation:
. “Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act” (HIPAA) in USA.
. “Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et
des Libertés” (CNIL) in France + European
directives.
. “Commission d’Accès à l’Information” in
Québec (Compostelle).