Cardiologists: Big Data Advances Research, But Shouldn't Do So at the Cost of Privacy (IMAGE)

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Cardiologists: Big Data Advances Research, But Shouldn't Do So at the Cost of Privacy

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Health data collected from your apps or wearable devices could revolutionize personalized health care, but the current lack of legal protections related to this technology could lead to personal health information becoming available to unscrupulous third parties, according to a new publication in "Circulation."

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