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by nl 1774 days ago
The issue of monetizing is completely separate to de-identification.

Often sources of this type of medical data will give them to universities under the no-commerical-use condition.

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The reason they do this is so that they can later monetize the dataset.
Often, no.

It's because if they charge for it the admin of having to pass money back to participating people is prohibitive.

Often you can't buy these datasets at any price.