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Legal Changes Needed to Push Use of Pseudonymized Data in Drug R&D: MHLW Working Group
A health ministry working group on January 11 compiled its basic views on the secondary use of pseudonymized information in public medical and nursing databases. Members agreed that legal changes are necessary to facilitate such secondary use by drug makers…
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