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Digital health: meeting the ethical and policy challenges
- Source :
- Swiss Medical Weekly, 148
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- SMW Supporting Association, 2018.
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Abstract
- Digital health encompasses a wide range of novel digital technologies related to health and medicine. Such technologies rely on recent advances in the collection and analysis of ever increasing amounts of data from both patients and healthy citizens. Along with new opportunities, however, come new ethical and policy challenges. These range from the need to adapt current evidence-based standards, to issues of privacy, oversight, accountability and public trust as well as national and international data governance and management. This review illustrates key issues and challenges facing the rapidly unfolding digital health paradigm and reflects on the impact of big data in medical research and clinical practice both internationally and in Switzerland. It concludes by emphasising five conditions that will be crucial to fulfil in order to foster innovation and fair benefit sharing in digital health.<br />Swiss Medical Weekly, 148<br />ISSN:1424-7860<br />ISSN:1424-3997
- Subjects :
- personalised health
020205 medical informatics
Big data
Biomedical Technology
digital health
02 engineering and technology
Trust
Data governance
digital ethics
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Information ethics
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Social Responsibility
business.industry
Data Collection
Health Policy
Corporate governance
General Medicine
Public relations
Digital health
Privacy
Accountability
Public trust
data governance
business
Social responsibility
Switzerland
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14243997 and 14247860
- Volume :
- 148
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Swiss Medical Weekly
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....749e35381ff7a2e9522d0bcdf5db8620