Those who enter a hospital or receive medical treatment are frequently being asked to release their health-related data for research. Some patients may ask themselves: Why should I make my data and samples available for research purposes? What will happen to them? How is my data protected? Who benefits from the knowledge that is obtained? What do I personally gain from donating data like donating blood?

In this panel discussion, distinguished experts will shed light on how data and digitization are playing an increasingly important role in modern medicine. Further we discuss the motivation to make individual health-related data available to research. The audience is invited to actively participate in the discussion.

Panelists:

• Prof. Beatrice Beck Schimmer, Vice President Medicine Zurich, University of Zurich
• Prof. Elisabeth Stark, Vice President Research, University of Zurich
• Dr. Katrin Crameri, Director SPHN Coordination Center, Basel
• Prof. Harald Gall, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, University of Zurich
• Prof. Catherine Jutzeler, Head Biomedical Data Science Lab, ETH Zürich
• Prof. Michael Krauthammer, Chair of Medical Informatics, Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich

Moderation:
Beat Glogger, freelance science journalist