Who Owns the Operating Room? Surgical Data Governance at a Crossroads

This Viewpoint identifies problems in the developing infrastructure of surgical data and makes recommendations for robust, patient-centered data governance.

Corresponding Author: Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans St, Sheikh Zayed Tower, 6107A, Baltimore, MD 21287 (jsakran1@jhmi.edu).

Link to the article in your story

We encourage you to link out to this article in your story using the link below. It includes an access token that will give free access to the article for your readers up to one year after publication. (The link will be live after the article publishes and embargo is lifted.)

Please see the article for additional information, including full author list, author contributions and affiliations, conflict of interest and financial disclosures, and funding and support.

Need more information? Contact us.