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Nature 406, 819 (24 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35022732

Iceland's doctors rebuffed in health data row

Alison Abbott

The Icelandic Medical Association (IMA) has failed to reach agreement with the genomics company deCODE Genetics over Iceland's new national health sector database, which is to be run by the company. The dispute centres over the plan for automatic inclusion of patients' health records in the anonymized database.