Healthcare and Big Data [electronic resource] : Digital Specters and Phantom Objects / by Mary F.E. Ebeling.

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Ebeling, Mary F.E

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SpringerLink (Online service)

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint), 2016.Description: XIII, 170 p. 3 illus. online resourceISBN:

9781137502216 (ebook:PDF)

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305.3 23

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Summary: This highly original book is an ethnographic noir of how Big Data profits from patient private health information. The book follows personal health data as it is collected from inside healthcare and beyond to create patient consumer profiles that are sold to marketers. Primarily told through a first-person noir narrative, Ebeling as a sociologist-hard-boiled-detective, investigates Big Data and the trade in private health information by examining the information networks that patient data traverses. The noir narrative reveals the processes that the data broker industry uses to create data commodities-data phantoms or the marketing profiles of patients that are bought by advertisers to directly market to consumers. Healthcare and Big Data considers the implications these "data phantoms" have for patient privacy as well as the very real harm that they can cause.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	National Library of India			Available		EBK000028923ENG

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This highly original book is an ethnographic noir of how Big Data profits from patient private health information. The book follows personal health data as it is collected from inside healthcare and beyond to create patient consumer profiles that are sold to marketers. Primarily told through a first-person noir narrative, Ebeling as a sociologist-hard-boiled-detective, investigates Big Data and the trade in private health information by examining the information networks that patient data traverses. The noir narrative reveals the processes that the data broker industry uses to create data commodities-data phantoms or the marketing profiles of patients that are bought by advertisers to directly market to consumers. Healthcare and Big Data considers the implications these "data phantoms" have for patient privacy as well as the very real harm that they can cause.

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