Protected Characteristics and Data Sharing in Healthcare (London)

The One HealthTech London hub is super excited to partner with Privitar to host a community hangout to discuss health data sharing and protected characteristics such as age, race, sexual orientation and disability. The health and social care sector is relatively advanced when it comes to using data, whether Big or small, electronic or paper, to inform better care. However, data-driven care is only as effective as the underlying data. Addressing inequalities in health outcomes and health service delivery requires access to high quality data, including on protected characteristics. The coronavirus pandemic highlights the challenges. Covid-19 has disproportionately affected men, who are black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME). Data collection has improved, but sharing and using data on protected characteristics remains challenging from an information governance, legal, technical, ethical and sociological perspective. 

Topics we will address:

• Why are we seeing different health outcomes for different groups? Can we identify correlation…