Electronic health records, telemedicine, cloud computing and big data: questions about data protection appear everywhere in digitized health care. Yet what do things look like far away from application at the foundations of medicine? Can patient data and personal rights in research be protected when several centers and numerous researchers participate in studies? In this interview with MEDICA.de, Prof Klaus Pommerening talks about guidelines on data protection concepts in research, establishing a data protection concept and the (non-) anonymization of patient data.Prof Pommerening, how is data protection in medical research actually regulated? Are there laws, standards or norms?Prof. Klaus Pommerening: The legislative body here in Germany only requires us to adhere to the general data protection laws. Of course, doctor-patient confidentiality as it pertains to treatment data also applies. In addition, there is a statement issued by the German Ethics Council on the work of biobanks, which was also carried over to research outside of biobanks at some point. However, there is no legal recourse for this statement. ...
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