지능정보 시대에서 보건의료 데이터 이용 활성화 방안: 보건의료데이터 법･제도적 규제 개선방안을 중심으로

This paper analyzes the current status and problems of the use of healthcare data in South Korea and explores plans to promote its use in the intelligent information age when data and knowledge are emerging as major sources of competition in the industry and the economic value of data is increasing as data-based customized services are spreading. Currently, the problems of healthcare data in South Korea are analyzed as first, the closed and monopolistic data utilization culture and behavior of data owners, second, the lack of data practicality, and third, the lack of trust for the safe use of data and laws and regulations that block the flow of data. Among them, we point out additional problems in terms of legal and institutional regulations: ‘confusions on the ground due to inconsistency between the medical records provision method the Medical Act and Exceptional Clause for the Handling of Pseudonymous Information under the Personal Information Protection Act’, ‘conflicts between biothics law and the Personal Information Protection Act on the definition of healthcare data and the scope of secondary use’ and ‘problems of interpretation as healthcare data is defined as sensitive information’. Based on the results, as solutions, we suggests to ensure the definition of data ownership and compensation, to develop a platform that can produce and share high-quality data and to prepare a dedicated legal system for activating data. Lastly, activating the combination of pseudonymous information and strengthening risk management by implementing governance that aims at value of public data using will make more secure use of health and medical data possible.