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

Join this course to understand how health data is protected

People use technologies to track their fitness and health. Medical and health professionals use technologies to treat patients. These technologies generate a lot of health data. With technological developments in the health sector come questions of privacy.

This course will explore the protection of health data in light of the GDPR. You will learn about rights, obligations, risks, safeguards and many other related aspects. By exploring the changing data protection landscape, you will improve your awareness of how to protect health data in an evolving digital and technical world.

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

There are no requirements or expected pre-knowledge required to follow this course successfully. You may also be interested in Understanding the General Data Protection Regulation.

• Introduction to protecting health data
• Introduction
• Legal aspects
• GDPR obligations and sensitive data
• Transferring health data
• Consent
• Rights of data subjects
• Risks
• Protecting health data in the modern age
• Apps and wearables
• Risks
• Cross-border health data
• Medical research
• Anonymisation
• Data retention
• Summary and closing