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Periodic Reporting for period 2 - POLICYAID (Policy, practice and patient experience in the age of intensified data sourcing)

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Summary

Health services collect, store and use more data than ever before. Healthcare has become data intensive. Clinicians, administrators, politicians, industry and patients have competing ideas about which data to gather, where to send them and how they should be used. This project seeks to understand, what is driving this data intensification and to explore the implications for everyday clinical care as well as for the rights and duties of healthcare professionals and patients. Based on this, we describe the data politics through which the health services currently take on new responsibilities and tasks and deliver new options for thinking about how to live with data in a productive manner. In particular, we develop new questions aimed at clarifying for whom and on whom data do their work.

Work performed

In POLICYAID we employ the term \'intensified data sourcing\' to describe contemporary attempts to get more data, of better quality, on more people, while simultaneously making the data available for multiple uses. Data are used for research, for financial remuneration purposes, for quality assurance, for attracting capital and even for police work. POLICYAID investigates how the diverse agendas interact in the making of a new infrastructure for healthcare.

Our aim is to understand the drivers for and implications of intensified data sourcing in the biomedical realm across three levels: policymaking, everyday clinical practices, and citizen experiences of health, illness, rights and duties. To achieve this aim we compare four different forms of intensified data sourcing, and analyse the regulatory frameworks guiding the data procurement and use in Denmark, the EU and beyond.

We fuse anthropological, sociological, legal, and public health scholarship and develop new methodologies for policy analysis by combining document analysis, interviews, participant observation and register-based methodologies. Instead of assuming what data sourcing is about (e.g., surveillance, control or research benefits), we open up the black box of data sourcing by describing how data are selected; financed; what they are used for; how data practices relate to the involved people\'s hopes and concerns; and who gains which rights to the data. In this way we explore how intensified data sourcing affects clinical routines and patient experience, and understand the preconditions for Big Data research in healthcare.

Final results

The project has shed new light on data intensification processes by way of moving from the high tech research area to the everyday processes of data collection, curation, and analysis, and thereby provided a more realistic basis from which to assess the implications of datafication. Furthermore, the project has identified numerous legal ambiguities and documented an emerging sense of what we call data anxiety among health professionals and researchers. Together the two lines of inquiry will provide the impetus for rethinking regulatory options in the remaining period of the project.