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Recently the topic of health data has been hotly debated in the news. The Minister of Health of The Netherlands, Fleur Agema, has suggested that the population’s health data should be stored in a giant, centralized data platform, hosted through Microsoft’s cloud solution.  

Marc Smits from Stichting Privacy First and Marleen Hendriks, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Amsterdam UMC, were on national radio program De Nieuws BV to discuss this development and offer an alternative plan that allows individuals to be in control of their data. JLI shares the views of the Smits and Marleen in the interview: patients should carry their data with them and be the ones to grant access to their data. This underlies the solution JLI is pushing for, a health data collective.

JLI believes there is much to gain from sharing data in health. We push to find solutions that allows society to share health data and to create value from it, safely and in the interest of all.

To learn more about the potential of individual data ownership, visit Health Data Collectives

Listen to the interviews here [in Dutch]