DPDP Challenges on Healthcare Data Security

The newly passed India’s DPDP Act 2023 is useful to protect personal data and information in the digital environment. This paper will also describe how passus from the DPDP Act impacts on healthcare research. While it risks enhancing data security and patients’ confidentiality on one side; on the other side, it opens new challenges for researchers to overcome. The Act tightens rules of consent, limitations to data collection, and enhanced standards of protection forspecific patient data. These rules add layers of problems to information acquisition, management, and distribution, challenging researchers’ approaches to experiments. Also, the Act enhances patient’s autonomy in regards to control of their personal information, including the rights to obtain or erasure. For healthcare organizations, this simply means that they have to design and implement systems for data management. In summary, this paper provides a critical analysis of the DPDP Act’s effects on healthcare research with special reference to the opportunities that come with better data management together with the difficulties of meeting today’s compliance requirements in the rapidly evolving IT world.