Learn how the GDPR helps to protect health data and get familiar with rights, obligations, risks and safeguards. Join this course to understand how health data is protected. People use technologies to track their fitness and health. Medical and health professionals use technologies to treat patients. These technologies generate a lot of health data. With technological developments in the health sector come questions of privacy.

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This course will explore the protection of health data in light of the GDPR. You will learn about rights, obligations, risks, safeguards and many other related aspects. By exploring the changing data protection landscape, you will improve your awareness of how to protect health data in an evolving digital and technical world.

What topics will you cover?

- Privacy, data protection and medical confidentiality

- Health data

- Legal considerations

- Rights and obligations

- Risks and safeguards

- Modern technologies

- Cross-border aspects

- Medical research

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Identify legal terminology as well as the legal obligations as regards health data.

- Identify risks involved in processing health data, in particular in light of technological developments.

- Identify the rights of data subjects as regards health data.

- Explore the impact of the legal framework on new technologies used in healthcare, more specifically apps and wearables.

- Investigate the possibilities of using health data for research purposes.