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Healthcare 4.0 and Data Protection Laws: A Review

Prasanth. R, Prasanna. S

Abstract


IoT enabled health monitoring applications are increasing day by day. Same is the case of healthcare data captured by these devices and the protection laws of various countries. This study is an analysis of  data protection laws of different countries.To analyze laws of various countries used to protect healthcare data. Here in this article we are putting forward the inspection of  6 healthcare protection laws of various countries currently in use.General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) of the European Union  is a popular one and is used as a benchmark for various data protection laws. The data protection laws in various countries can be considered feasible only  as long as the custodian duty of safe keeping  of public health authorities is maintained; this means  that the non primary use of sensitive healthcare  data shall come up with  the public interest and/or to safeguard  the vital concern  of the data subjects. This can be achieved  only  if all nodes available under the health data space come up with the required  organizational and technical security measures needed to fulfill their bit part.


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