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Healthcare Data in the Digital Age: Balancing Innovation, Privacy, and Ethical Responsibility
Vidya Rajasekhara Reddy Tetala
Journal of Interdisclipinary Inquiry (2025) 1 (1).
Issue Section: Research
Keywords: Healthcare Data, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence, Patient Privacy, Data Governance, Ethics, Health Informatics, Big Data, Data Security, Healthcare Analytics
Abstract
There is no doubt that the digital revolution in healthcare has had a profound impact on the way patient data is gathered, analyzed, stored and leveraged. In the era of EHRs, wearables, telemedicine solutions, genomics databases and advanced analytics based on Artificial Intelligence, healthcare providers see new avenues for optimizing operations, improving patient outcomes and conducting cutting-edge research. Nonetheless, the rise of the healthcare data technologies brings about many difficulties related to privacy, security issues, informed consent and ethical governance of the healthcare industry. Today more healthcare organizations gather big volumes of patient data to build predictive models, personalize patient care and better manage populations. Unfortunately, the use of healthcare data leads to many risks related to the unauthorized access, bias in algorithms, data ownership and misuse of sensitive patient information. This paper seeks to discuss the changing landscape of healthcare data, the ethical issues arising from the use of patient data and the possible healthcare data governance models.
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Vidya Rajasekhara Reddy Tetala
Published 2026-05-15
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TETALA, V. R. R. (2026). Healthcare Data in the Digital Age: Balancing Innovation, Privacy, and Ethical Responsibility. The Journal of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21249779
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