Data Paradoxes The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare

• Main Author: Hoeyer, Klaus (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2023
• Series: Infrastructures
• Subjects: Computer science; Data; datafication; data work; data sharing; data infrastructures; information infrastructures; Digital health; eHealth; Artificial intelligence; AI; algorithms; automation; Health; health care, healthcare; hospitals; medicine; Data politics; data mining; intensified data sourcing; data-based management; learning healthcare systems; personalized medicine; real-world data; real-world evidence; Denmark; Scandinavia; European Union, EU; Global North; Science and technology studies; science, technology and society; STS; anthropology; medical anthropology; sociology; medical sociology; data studies; critical data studies
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Why healthcare cannot-and should not-become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.In contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more data, of higher quality, on more people, and to use this data for a wider range of purposes. In theory, such pervasive data collect...