Mr. Simon McGarr:

Without pretending to be an expert on health care, I believe that the US system is a different system that does not have the same data protection rights that the EU has embedded in its Charter of Fundamental Rights. If the State wishes, which it should, to take advantage of the growth of new technology in respect of improving health care outcomes for people, it must do so by respecting those rights and by starting from the basis that those rights are the bedrock on which to build people's trust and deliver a lasting and reliable health care service. Unless that lasting and reliable health care service has the trust of the population, it will fail, as we have seen in other countries both within and outside of the EU.