CRADLE Seminar Series: Paradox of Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare

Registrations are closed

Sorry, but registrations for this event have ended. To find out more about upcoming CRADLE events, visit our blog, www.blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle

CRADLE Seminar Series: Paradox of Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare

Join us to hear from Prof Klaus Hoeyer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark on healthcare data sourcing.

By Centre for Research in Assessment&Digital Learning

Date and time

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST

Location

Online

About this event

Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare

We are pleased to announce, in conjunction with Deakin’s Science and Society Network and Monash University that Professor Klaus Hoeyer, Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen will present an analysis of the politics of intensified data sourcing in healthcare as it unfolds in Denmark, in our first seminar for 2023.

In this talk Professor Hoeyer will share the perspectives of different stakeholders, from epidemiologists to hospital managers, from patients to physicians, by analysing the social dynamics set in motion by data intensification and calling special attention to that which cannot be easily coded in a database.

In contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more data, of higher quality, on more people, and to use this data for a wider range of purposes. In theory, such pervasive data collection should lead to a healthcare system in which data can quickly, efficiently, and unambiguously be interpreted and provide better care for patients, more efficient administration, enhanced options for research, and accelerated economic growth. In practice, however, data are difficult to interpret and the many purposes sometimes undermine one another. We need new analytical tools to understand why, and to make better use of data.

The talk serves to present his new book by the same title (MIT Press, 2023), and will be followed by an interactive Q&A mediated by CRADLE's Professor Margaret Bearman. Klaus's new book discusses why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.

Please note this session is not being recorded

Klaus Hoeyer has his background in anthropology and is currently Professor of Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on exchange systems for human biological material and sensitive data, and he has recently completed the European Research Council funded project POLICYAID (www.policyaid.ku.dk), on which this talk is based. Klaus will be in Australia on an academic visitation hosted by Monash University in February and March 2023.

Organised by

The Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) investigates improvements in higher education assessment in the context of a rapidly expanding digital environment.

cradle@deakin.edu.au

Sales Ended