On the importance of intellectual property rights for e-science and the integrated health record.

Journal article

An integrated health record (IHR) that enables clinical data to be shared at a national level has profound implications for medical research. Data that have been useful primarily within a single clinic will instead be free to move rapidly around a national network infrastructure. This raises challenges for technologists, clinical practice, and for the governance of these data. This article considers one specific issue that is currently poorly understood: how intellectual property (IP) relates...

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Authors: D'Agostino, G; Hinds, C; Jirotka, M; Meyer, C; Piper, T

• Journal: Health informatics journal
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 95-111
• Publication date: 2008-06-01
• DOI: 10.1177/1081180x08089318
• EISSN: 1741-2811
• ISSN: 1460-4582
• Language: English
• Keywords: Systems Integration; Medical Records Systems, Computerized; Intellectual Property; Computer Communication Networks; Ownership; Copyright; Humans