A symposium will be held to discuss how to utilize medical data such as surgical videos to improve medical technology, and guidelines should be considered regarding how to obtain consent from patients and how to pay doctors. Opinions such as came out.
Regarding the surgical videos, it became clear that multiple ophthalmologists working at general hospitals nationwide provided videos of cataract surgery to medical device manufacturers without permission from patients and their workplaces, and suspected that they had received cash. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the National Personal Information Protection Commission are conducting investigations.
Under these circumstances, at the symposium held by the Japan Computer Surgery Society in Minato-ku, Tokyo, discussions were held on how to promote the use of medical data such as surgical videos to improve medical technology.
Among them, about 3000 surgical videos using endoscopes were collected, projects such as the National Cancer Center, which built a database, were introduced, and in consideration of the Personal Information Protection Law, patients were collected from the collected videos. It was explained that the name and hospital name of the patient were deleted from the data, and that all patients had given their consent in advance.
The doctors who participated after this commented on how much prior consent of the patient is required to use the surgical video and that guidelines should be considered regarding the payment of compensation to the doctor who provided the data. rice field.