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Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research

Date Submitted: Jul 18, 2018
Open Peer Review Period: Jul 23, 2018 - Aug 29, 2018
Date Accepted: Sep 8, 2018
(closed for review but you can still tweet)

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

Rethinking Data Sharing at the Dawn of a Health Data Economy: A Viewpoint

Tang C, Plasek JM, Bates DW

Rethinking Data Sharing at the Dawn of a Health Data Economy: A Viewpoint

J Med Internet Res 2018;20(11):e11519

DOI: 10.2196/11519

PMID: 30467103

PMCID: 6284141

Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

Rethinking Data Sharing at the Dawn of a Health Data Economy: A Viewpoint

  • Chunlei Tang; 
  • Joseph M Plasek; 
  • David W. Bates

A health data economy has begun to form, but its rise has been tempered by the profound lack of sharing of both data and data products such as models, intermediate results, and annotated training corpora, and this severely limits the potential for triggering economic cluster effects. Economic cluster effects represent a means to elicit benefit from economies of scale from internal data innovations and are beneficial because they may mitigate challenges from external sources. Within institutions, data product sharing is needed to spark data entrepreneurship and data innovation, and cross-institutional sharing is also critical, especially for rare conditions.


 Citation

Please cite as:

Tang C, Plasek JM, Bates DW

Rethinking Data Sharing at the Dawn of a Health Data Economy: A Viewpoint

J Med Internet Res 2018;20(11):e11519

DOI: 10.2196/11519

PMID: 30467103

PMCID: 6284141

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