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Data-intensive medicine

In: Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine

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  • Klaus Hoeyer

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When policy papers discuss ‘data-intensive medicine’, they tend to focus on high-tech frontier science. However, data-intensity in medicine is driven more by political and administrative demands than medical and technological innovation. Data intensification in medicine involves a lot of low-tech manual labour and typically revolves around making data available for new purposes and actors. Such data integration affects who gets to know what about patients and the health services - and it transfigures what counts as knowledge. While data intensification is a global trend, the changes it installs always interact with local interests. Drawing on a case study of a conflict between psychologists and general practitioners in Denmark about data access and assessment of evidence of effect, the chapter illustrates how data do not solve or clarify who is right or wrong. Rather, data facilitate particular ways of contesting the claims made by others and organising the political battle.

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  • Klaus Hoeyer, 2023. "Data-intensive medicine," Chapters, in: Alan Petersen (ed.), Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine, chapter 30, pages 474-487, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19641_30
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