{"title":"Data as medicine's backbone: redefining its value to foster innovation in the data economy.","authors":"Michael Byczkowski","doi":"10.1136/bmjhci-2025-101513","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Data are the engine of modern medicine, yet its economic trade-off remains unequally distributed: hospitals and research institutions shoulder the effort of collection, while life science companies reap the financial rewards. This imbalance raises pressing questions about fairness, rights and sustainability.</p>","PeriodicalId":9050,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Health & Care Informatics","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"BMJ Health & Care Informatics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2025-101513","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Data are the engine of modern medicine, yet its economic trade-off remains unequally distributed: hospitals and research institutions shoulder the effort of collection, while life science companies reap the financial rewards. This imbalance raises pressing questions about fairness, rights and sustainability.