Developing an international database on long-term health effects of spaceflight

 

NASA's Lifetime Surveillance for Astronaut Health (LSAH) program collects health/medical data on active and retired U.S. and Canadian crew; to our knowledge, there are no parallel efforts collecting life-long data on many international retired astronauts and cosmonauts.   The long-term goal of this investigative team is to establish a secure data repository for biomedical data from the international retired crew. 

The article published in Acta Astronautica shares findings regarding:

1) Feasibility of using current electronic personal health record technologies

2) Input from retired crew and stakeholders on issues related to collecting/archiving biomedical data

3) International medical privacy law pertinent to the collection of individual citizen's biomedical data