Visions and challenges in managing and preserving data to measure quality of life

Vero Estrada-Galinanes, Katarzyna Wac

    2 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    Health-related data analysis plays an important role in self-knowledge, disease prevention, diagnosis, and quality of life assessment. With the advent of data-driven solutions, a myriad of apps and Internet of Things (IoT) devices (wearables, home-medical sensors, etc) facilitates data collection and provide cloud storage with a central administration. More recently, blockchain and other distributed ledgers became available as alternative storage options based on decentralised organisation systems. We bring attention to the human data bleeding problem and argue that neither centralised nor decentralised system organisations are a magic bullet for data-driven innovation if individual, community and societal values are ignored. The motivation for this position paper is to elaborate on strategies to protect privacy as well as to encourage data sharing and support open data without requiring a complex access protocol for researchers. Our main contribution is to outline the design of a self-regulated Open Health Archive (OHA) system with focus on quality of life (QoL) data.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE 3rd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems, FAS*W 2018
    Number of pages8
    PublisherIEEE
    Publication date2019
    Pages92-99
    Article number8599538
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538651759
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    Event3rd IEEE International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems, FAS*W 2018 - Trento, Italy
    Duration: 3 Sept 20187 Sept 2018

    Conference

    Conference3rd IEEE International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems, FAS*W 2018
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityTrento
    Period03/09/201807/09/2018

    Keywords

    • Cooperative health system
    • Crowdsourcing data
    • Data governance
    • Data stewardship
    • Ethical challenges
    • Health related data
    • Quality of life
    • Rich data
    • Self regulated system
    • Storage architectures

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