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

University of Groningen via FutureLearn

Overview

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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.

Syllabus

  • 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

Taught by

Melania Tudorica

Reviews

4.9 rating, based on 14 Class Central reviews

4.6 rating at FutureLearn based on 23 ratings

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  • Elsa Popov
    Easy to follow and informative. Uses a relevant case study to explain GDPR for health data. Good mix of videos, articles and quizes. Includes 1 assignment and peer review.
  • The course is a very useful in order to learn about GDPR and specifically GDPR and how to applies to Health Data. It should be very useful for anyone working in the Health sector but I believe it will be also very extremely useful for everyone else as you sooner or later will have to deal with health issues or data relating to health and it is very important to be aware of how much information about yourself you are sharing and how your privacy could be affected.

    I highly recommended whether you work with Health Data or not.
  • Darmstaedter Xavier
    I am a GDPR "generalist" currently conducting a number of compliance programmes. I have to warmly congratulate the organisers of the course. What I very much appreciated in this course is its practical character ; the example is extremely well chos…
  • Anonymous
    The content was well-presented with video examples, text and exercises. Although I have a good knowledge of GDPR, each lesson provided me with additional valuable insights. The assignment exercise was especially valuable as with the feedback it re-inforces the learnings.
  • Anonymous
    The course is informative and with 2 weeks also rather short. The course is not as in-depth as I would like regarding processing health data for research purposes for example, and I think improvements in structure of the course would help a lot: oft…
  • Anonymous
    A very well prepared course! Every healthcare professional should follow this course. It provides great practical tips and insights while referring to the basis of each rule and principle under the data protection regulation in the EU.
  • Peter Poelman
    Having followed several MOOC courses already, this course really stood out. First of all by the charming enthusiasm of the educators. Secondly by the efforts taken to make this course. It was not like in many other cases a recycling of of-the-shelve…
  • Anonymous
    This course was informative and interesting - it felt up to date with its information, and was valuable to me due to my work with patient data in a hospital. Everyone can benefit from learning more about GDPR as we all either work with data or are data subjects ourselves every time we log on to an app or website. Good course.
  • The educators in the course made it so easy for someone who is even not covered in the GDPR to understand what it is, why it's there and how to implement it in healthcare. I for sure will start reading my terms and conditions on anything I use.
  • Anonymous
    Well done to the University of Groningen, this is the 3rd course on Future-Learn i have completed with you. It really compliments my learning for my distant LLM.

    I love the Dutch spin on things too. Dank u zeer.

  • Anonymous
    Very effective use of the case study method to facilitate learning.
    The Instructors teach with clarity and warmth.
    The learner participation exercises are appropriately pitched to consolidate learning.
  • Anonymous
    Very interesting course about gdpr and health data. Useful and easy to understand. I strongly recommend for everyone who wants to know a little bit more about the topic
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    Health Informatics Manager
    I strongly recommend this course.
    It is easy to understand and an interactive course. also, it is full with important data protection information
  • Anonymous
    It is a very interesting course. I like, especially, the video in this course. Frankly speaking, it is a best course i have ever complited.

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