Stop the privatization of health data

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Tech giants moving into health may widen inequalities and harm research, unless people can access and share their data, warn John T. Wilbanks and Eric J. Topol.

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  1. John T. Wilbanks is chief commons officer at Sage Bionetworks in Seattle, Washington, USA.,

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  2. Eric J. Topol is professor of genomics at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, USA.,

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Wilbanks, J., Topol, E. Stop the privatization of health data. Nature 535, 345–348 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/535345a

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