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Keywords Data sharing Personal health data Secondary use Genomic data Biobank Person-generated data Evidence before this study Prior to conducting this study, we performed a search of all published reviews that explored health data sharing behaviour/intentions.

Introduction Telemedicine is the remote delivery of healthcare services using information and communication technologies for the exchange clinical data for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases (1). Telemedicine has historically been used to provide healthcare to rural or underserved areas. Still, in recent years it has grown in popularity as a way to improve access to healthcare, increase care quality level and, in some cases cost reduction was proved (2).