ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the source, features, application, and obstacles of current healthcare data in China and puts forward relevant proposals. It proposes regulation criterions for health-care data acquisition, as well as the supervision means on cross-border flows of healthcare data. The chapter tackles the perfection of privacy disclosure relief system, and the sharing and opening mechanisms for healthcare Big Data resource. It discusses a brief explanation of the different sources and features of healthcare data. Healthcare data have a lot of sources that are mainly from medical institutions. The generation of data from hospitals and primary-level medical and healthcare institutions is in the process of routine clinical treatment, research, and management, including not only the record of outpatient and emergency, hospitalization, medical-imaging, laboratory, medications, surgery, and follow-up but also Medicare data. Most of the data, formatting in a medical professional manner and in a natural randomness of clinical practice, are the most primitive clinical record.
