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Record Nr.

UNINA9910561294703321

Autore

Schneider Giulia

Titolo

Health Data Pools Under European Data Protection and Competition Law : Health as a Digital Business / / by Giulia Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783030954277

9783030954260

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 pages)

Collana

Munich Studies on Innovation and Competition, , 2199-7470 ; ; 17

Disciplina

344.4041

344.24041

Soggetti

Information technology - Law and legislation

Mass media - Law and legislation

Law - Europe

Medical economics

IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property

European Law

Health Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Object, Methodology and Structure of the Research -- Digital Health -- Research and Health Data Pools -- Health Data Pools: Case-Studies and Involved Interests -- Health Data Pools Under the Digital Single Market Strategy -- Health Data Pools Under European Data Protection Law -- Health Data Pools under European Competition Law -- Designing Health Data Pools: Data Protection Safeguards and Competition Remedies -- Research Results and Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the emerging economic reality of health data pools from the perspective of European Union policy and law. The contractual sharing of health data for research purposes is giving rise to a free movement of research data, which is strongly encouraged at European policy level within the Digital Single Market Strategy. However, it has also a strong impact on data subjects fundamental right to data protection and smaller businesses and research entities ability to carry



out research and compete in innovation markets. Accordingly the work questions under which conditions health data sharing is lawful under European data protection and competition law. For these purposes, the work addresses the following sub-questions: i) which is the emerging innovation paradigm in digital health research?; ii) how are health data pools addressed at European policy level?; iii) do European data protection and competition law promote health data-driven innovation objectives, and how?; iv) which are the limits posed by the two frameworks to the free pooling of health data? The underlying assumption of the work is that both branches of European Union law are key regulatory tools for the creation of a common European health data space as envisaged in the Commissions 2020 European strategy for data. It thus demonstrates that both European data protection law, as defined under the General Data Protection Regulation, and European competition law and policy set research enabling regimes regarding health data, provided specific normative conditions are met. From a further perspective, both regulatory frameworks place external limits to the freedom to share (or not share) research valuable data. .