Big Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence in Biomedical and Health Informatics

10Big Data and Data Mining in e-Health: Legal Issues and Challenges

Amita Verma* and Arpit Bansal

University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Abstract

e-Health is a rising industry. At a time when physical healthcare facilities were full of COVID19 patients, the e-Health Industry has become even more diverse and is being resorted to as a primary healthcare system specially to treat regular health problems. The health data of millions of patients is being stored online. The same is done through the concept of Big Data and Data Mining in e-Health. In India, the National Digital Health Mission is aimed towards using this technique to simplify e-Health services. Though Big Data helps in optimizing operations and services, there is another issue which is rising these days. The issue pertains to the Privacy of an individual’s sensitive personal data and information. Health data, which is considered as the most sensitive data of the individual, is stored online and is made available for the use of various stake holders. In such a scenario, the issue of privacy becomes even more prominent, and the security of the data becomes even more important. This paper studies the use of Big Data in context of Data Privacy. The paper focuses on the legal framework with respect to privacy in India and a comparison of the same with other countries.

Keywords: NDHM, Big Data, e-Health

Object of Study

The increasing use of technology has posed the dangers to the privacy ...