John Burn-Murdoch

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John Burn-Murdoch
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Columnist and chief data reporter | Stories, stats & scatterplots | Senior fellow | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
Doncaster ➡️ Londonft.com/jbmJoined June 2009
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Also, selling your (anonymised) data is good! The NHS is one of the greatest resources of centralised patient data in the world. It can provide enormous insights into health outcomes and can be parlayed to get deals for cheaper medicines from pharma firms which need that data
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Everyone saying “no we can’t let the NHS use a proper joined up digital patient database, it’s all part of a plot to privatise British healthcare and sell your data” should be forced to read the dozens (hundreds?) of case studies like these bbc.co.uk/news/health-67
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