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Protecting Health Data in the Modern Age: Getting to Grips with the GDPR

Learn about the General Data Protection Regulation and how it can help you to protect health data, with this online course from the University of Groningen.

Duration

2 weeks

Weekly study

3 hours

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Join this course to understand how health data is protected

People use technologies to track their fitness and health. Medical and health professionals use technologies to treat patients. These technologies generate a lot of health data. With technological developments in the health sector come questions of privacy.

This course will explore the protection of health data in light of the GDPR. You will learn about rights, obligations, risks, safeguards and many other related aspects. By exploring the changing data protection landscape, you will improve your awareness of how to protect health data in an evolving digital and technical world.

Week 1
Introduction to protecting health data
- Introduction
  Introduction to the protection of health data in light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Legal aspects
  Introduction to the legal aspects of the protection of health data
- GDPR obligations and sensitive data
  Obligations and sensitive data with regard health data
- Transferring health data
  Transferring health data
- Consent
  Learn more on the role of consent for processing (health) data.
- Rights of data subjects
  Learn more about the rights of data subjects according to the GDPR.
- Risks
  There are risks involved when processing health data, both in the offline and online world.
Week 2
Protecting health data in the modern age
- Apps and wearables
  Apps and wearables
- Risks
  What are the risks involved in using modern technologies such as apps and wearables for the processing of health data?
- Cross-border health data
  Cross-border health data
- Medical research
  Introduction to the relevance to society as regards medical research.
- Anonymisation
  Introducing safeguards
- Data retention
  Another important safeguard, next to anonymisation, is data retention.
- Summary and closing
  Summary and closing