Israel wants to recruit 100,000 volunteers over five years for a research project that it hopes will turn it into a global leader in digital health care, according to Bloomberg.
The $275 million initiative, announced Sunday, will launch in the fourth quarter of this year, said Eli Groner, director general of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. The government wants to build the world’s largest digitized database of medical information, which could be used by researchers, drug companies and doctors.
“We anticipate creating a whole new industry here of medical research, pharmaceutical companies, startups,“ Groner told reporters. “We expect it will be a major growth driver for the Israeli economy.“ Israel has two key advantages for the project, according to Groner: a relatively small and centralized health-care system, and years of digitized medical data on nearly all its citizens. To participate in the project, volunteers would need to give permission for their clinical, DNA and physiological records to be added to the database.
Coming amid intense public debate on data security in the wake of Facebook Inc.’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, the announcement has raised concerns about how participants’ health data would be protected. Groner said officials are working on regulations limiting how the data could be used and what measures must be in place to protect it.
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