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The Value of Data: Applying a Public Value Model to the English National Health Service

Wilson, J; Herron, D; Nachev, P; McNally, N; Williams, B; Rees, G; (2020) The Value of Data: Applying a Public Value Model to the English National Health Service. JMIR - Journal of Medical Internet Research , 22 (3) , Article e15816. 10.2196/15816. Green open access

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Abstract

Research and innovation in biomedicine and health care increasingly depend on electronic data. The emergence of data-driven technologies and associated digital transformations has focused attention on the value of such data. Despite the broad consensus of the value of health data, there is less consensus on the basis for that value; thus, the nature and extent of health data value remain unclear. Much of the existing literature presupposes that the value of data is to be understood primarily in financial terms, and assumes that a single financial value can be assigned. We here argue that the value of a dataset is instead relational; that is, the value depends on who wants to use it and for what purposes. Moreover, data are valued for both nonfinancial and financial reasons. Thus, it may be more accurate to discuss the values (plural) of a dataset rather than the singular value. This plurality of values opens up an important set of questions about how health data should be valued for the purposes of public policy. We argue that public value models provide a useful approach in this regard. According to public value theory, public value is created, or captured, to the extent that public sector institutions further their democratically established goals, and their impact on improving the lives of citizens. This article outlines how adopting such an approach might be operationalized within existing health care systems such as the English National Health Service, with particular focus on actionable conclusions.

Type: Article
Title: The Value of Data: Applying a Public Value Model to the English National Health Service
Location: Canada
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.2196/15816
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15816
Language: English
Additional information: ©James Wilson, Daniel Herron, Parashkev Nachev, Nick McNally, Bryan Williams, Geraint Rees. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 27.03.2020. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
Keywords: NHS Constitution, health policy, innovation, intellectual property, public value
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > VP: Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > VP: Health > Clinical Research Support Centre
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10094253
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