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

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Course Features

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Duration

2 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Lifetime Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

3 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Technology is used by people to monitor their health and fitness. Technology is used by medical and health professionals to treat patients. These technologies produce a lot of data about health. Privacy is a concern with technological advances in the healthcare sector.

This course will focus on the GDPR and the protection of personal health data. Learn about your rights, obligations, safeguards, and other related issues. You will gain a better understanding of how to protect your health data in a changing digital and technological world by exploring the evolving data protection landscape.

Course Overview

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Explore the impact of the legal framework on new technologies used in healthcare, more specifically apps and wearables

Identify legal terminology as well as the legal obligations as regards health data

Identify risks involved in processing health data, in particular in light of technological developments

Identify the rights of data subjects as regards health data

Investigate the possibilities of using health data for research purposes

Target Students

It will be of particular interest to medical and health professionals as well as medical researchers, insurers, IT developers, students, patients and other individuals who want to learn more about data protection and the GDPR as regards health data

The course is aimed at anyone who is interested in the legal framework concerning health data

Course Instructors

Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici

Instructor

Professor of European Technology Law and Human Rights and Co-Leader of the STeP Research Team at the University of Groningen.
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Melania Tudorica

Instructor

Research fellow EU projects- PhD researcher at the University of Groningen working on privacy issues, in particular in healthcare.
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Trix Mulder

Instructor

PhD researcher and lecturer at the University of Groningen working on privacy issues, in particular in healthcare.
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