Between care and control : 200 years of health data in France – AlgorithmWatch
▻https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/health-data-hub-history
The “Health Data Hub” will soon offer health data on all French citizens to AI startups that request it. It is the latest step in a project to centralize health information that began 200 years ago and kept oscillating between care and control, but mostly control. Coming back from the 1876 World Hygiene Congress, French doctor Olivier du Mesnil was in awe of Brussels’ health information system. There, he wrote, doctors immediately sent a copy of death certificates to the central hygiene (...)
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