Digital Health Care outside of Traditional Clinical Settings: Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities
This edited volume is based on the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2022 annual conference, Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Diagnostics and Therapeutics Outside of Traditional Clinical Settings, which brought experts together to consider the recent explosion of at-home digital health care and explore the ethical, legal, regulatory, and reimbursement challenges and opportunities of this shift away from the 20th century focus on clinics and hospitals towards a more modern model.
This conference was organized in collaboration with I. Glenn Cohen, Julia Adler-Milstein, University of California San Francisco, and Daniel Kramer, Harvard Medical School, and Carmel Shachar, Harvard Law School.
From the Publisher:
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, health care delivery was shifting away from the clinic and into the home, utilizing telehealth, wearable sensors, ambient surveillance, and other products. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the value of when “health care comes home,” accelerating trends such as aging at home for seniors and telehealth. In the coming years, patients will increasingly interact with digital products from the start of their care, such as by using wearable sensors to monitor changes in temperature or blood pressure, conducting home or self-directed testing before virtually meeting with a physician for a diagnosis, and then using smart pills to document their adherence to the prescribed treatment. This volume reflects on the explosion of at-home digital health care and explore the ethical, legal, regulatory, and reimbursement challenges and opportunities of this shift away from the 20th century focus on clinics and hospitals towards a more modern model.
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