Who Should Own In-the-Body Medical Data in the Age of eHealth? [Viewpoint]

Within the next decade, reactive medical practices will evolve into what has been popularly coined “P4” medicine - predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory - where examinations will take place at home, where devices connected to the body, externally and internally, will send medical data into the cloud, where expert systems will analyze and determine wellness and disease, as well as tweak, in real time, personalized electronic prescriptions for medical treatment and anatomical enhancement. Patients should own this data, and this paper discussed why.