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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?

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  • 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.
  • 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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  • Artificial Intelligence

    The Tricky Task of Defining AI in the Law

    If you ask someone to define AI, you will get no universal answer. One of the key challenges in legislating AI will be to define it.

    The Tricky Task of Defining AI in the Law

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  • Health Law Policy

    The German Stem Cell Network Has Compiled a Sample Text for Informed Consent

    By Sara Gerke At the General Meeting of the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) in Jena in September 2017, Tobias Cantz and I proposed the establishment of a new GSCN strategic working group. This new working group,…

    The German Stem Cell Network Has Compiled a Sample Text for Informed Consent

  • Biotechnology

    The EU’s GDPR in the Health Care Context 

    By Sara Gerke  The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force two years ago but became directly applicable in all EU Member States only last week, aims to establish an equal level of protection for the rights and freedoms…

    The EU’s GDPR in the Health Care Context 

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