Health and Security in a Global Digital Transforming Society: Risks and Opportunities

摘要

Thanks to knowledge produced during Human Genomics and Exposome projects, we now know approximately 70% of all human diseases can be explained by 'exposure-throughout-life'. Exposure Science and its combination of ICT and Omics will support the further understanding of the patterns of diseases and will open up even more possibilities, like personalised medicine, not just for treatment but also probabilistic prevention as a function of environmental parameters. Combining these three areas will offer risk managers to take measures that protect the general population, specific groups and individuals and will eventually offer means to repair alternated DNA in the future reorienting the healthcare systems away from costly 'one-size-fits-all' approach. New technologies such as internal and external biomonitoring sensors produce huge amount of data causing an ever further digitalization of health data boosting preventive and curative health care options. Sensors in combination with the release of specific dosages for medical treatments accessible via the internet require high demands on secure data collection, storage, handling and ownership. Like many of the big technological developments outcomes can be used for the good but also for the bad supporting the development of secure health-related information preventing unwanted CBRNE-type (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives) incidents. In many countries new streams of health data are generated. These data are important building blocks for a new approach to health research and delivery, tailored to the protective needs the population. Therefore, linking security with health in the digital transformation of the current society is of upmost importance. This presentation will address the opportunities and threats in the frame of security and health in a global digital transforming society and aims to interact with exposure practitioners to develop best practices in field of secure health information.