No video of the event yet, sorry!

Healthcare data is highly sensitive information. The market is very promising, why many of the big players invest in it.

But is this in the best interest of the consumer? Why do you need a cloud subscription to monitor your smartwatch? Why don't you have a choice for your healthcare data service provider? The profit companies collect your data, analyze it and sell the result back to you (And what additionally is done with your data is mostly not disclosed). So if you want to make proper use of your device, you have to share your data. And by this, you create a lovely honeypot for hacker around the world. Do you really want that?

The talk should give you an idea about the obstacles we face when health data is managed by profit-oriented companies. It will give an overview about Free Software alternatives for healthcare, why this mitigates the operational risk and how openSUSE can help you in that area.