“The government has unveiled plans for a series of pilots to explore the feasibility of an opt out clause for patients not willing to automatically open up their electronic medical records for scientific research.
The Department of Health has this week published long-awaited findings of a consultation it carried out in 2008 to gage public feeling over plans to allow medical researchers access to data held within electronic health records, which are currently rolling out across the country.”
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Selina McKee, PharmaTimes, 3 December 2009
