This post is the second part in a two-part series about nudge theory, health data, and the U.K.’s National Data Opt-out System. You can read the first part here.
Governments are always actively trying to improve their health care systems, and the secondary use of health data is one way of reaching this goal effectively. The secondary use of health data involves the use of health care data collected for a new purpose, such as research and policy planning. This data is usually collected from hospitals and health care systems – large databases containing administrative, medical, health care, and personal data from patients.