Health data privacy through homomorphic encryption and distributed ledger computing: an ethical-legal qualitative expert assessment study

Abstract Background Increasingly, hospitals and research institutes are developing technical solutions for sharing patient data in a privacy preserving manner. Two of these technical solutions are homomorphic encryption and distributed ledger technology. Homomorphic encryption allows computations to...

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Main Authors: James Scheibner, Marcello Ienca, Effy Vayena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-022-00852-2