Data assists tbe creation if knowledge, and data collection will be discussed at the UN World Data Forum in Medellin, Mexico, in November.
All 17 Sustainable Development Goals will be discussed at this data forum and the issue of the global governance of personal health data and cross border processing of personal health data was briefly discussed at the pre forum webinar yesterday.
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HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data. Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com
[*Note from HIFA moderator (NPW): Here is the website: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/undataforum/
'The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development...
'Every UN World Data Forum has resulted in the release of an outcome document to chart the progress of discussions around data and statistics and express the ambitions of the stakeholder community...']