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Sara Gerke

  • Digital Health

    Should We Regulate Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps?

    Over 318,000 health apps are available in app stores, but only a fraction are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

    Should We Regulate Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps?

    illustration of person tracking his health condition with smart bracelet, mobile application and cloud services.
  • Artificial Intelligence

    Mitigating Bias in Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

    How can we mitigate biases in AI-based health care? And how can we ensure that AI improves health care, rather than augmenting existing disparities?

    Mitigating Bias in Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

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  • Artificial Intelligence

    Perspectives on Data Privacy for Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

    Direct-to-consumer health apps provide a window into key issues in the world of digital health. In this post, respondents consider data privacy concerns.

    Perspectives on Data Privacy for Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

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  • Blog Symposia

    Germany’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Testing, quarantine and contact tracing were employed to detect and prevent further transmission of the virus. Breach of orders was criminally punishable.

    Germany’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    German Bundestag.
  • Biotechnology

    Ethical and legal issues of ingestible electronic sensors

    This post originally appeared in Device and Materials Engineering. You can read it here. By Sara Gerke and I. Glenn Cohen In our new paper, we discuss the ethical challenges of ingestible electronics sensors (IESs;…

    Ethical and legal issues of ingestible electronic sensors

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  • Artificial Intelligence

    Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part I: The Background

    By Timo Minssen (CeBIL, UCPH), Sara Gerke & Carmel Shachar A recent US lawsuit highlights crucial challenges at the interface of data utility, patient privacy & data misuse The huge prospects of artificial intelligence and machine…

    Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part I: The Background

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  • Artificial Intelligence

    A User-Focused Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Health Tech Governance

    A new working paper from participants in the AI-Health Working Group sets forth a research agenda for stakeholders to proactively collaborate and design AI technologies that work with users to improve their health and wellbeing.

    A User-Focused Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Health Tech Governance

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