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.
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Read more: Mitigating Bias in Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps 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?
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Read more: Who Owns the Data Collected by Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps? Who Owns the Data Collected by Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps?
Who owns the data that are collected via direct-to-consumer health apps? Who should own that data?
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Read more: Should Users Have Access to Data Collected by Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps? Should Users Have Access to Data Collected by Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps?
Should consumers have access to the data that are collected via direct-to-consumer health apps? What real-world challenges might this create?
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Read more: Perspectives on Data Privacy for Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps 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.
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Read more: New Rule Puts Medical Data in Patients’ Hands New Rule Puts Medical Data in Patients’ Hands
Health systems are now required to provide patients with timely access to their own medical records, upon request.
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Read more: We Need to Do More with Hospitals’ Data, But There Are Better Ways We Need to Do More with Hospitals’ Data, But There Are Better Ways
Health systems are hoping to leverage the know-how of tech titans to unlock the potential of their treasure troves of data.
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Read more: Call for Abstracts — 2022 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Diagnosing in the Home Call for Abstracts — 2022 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Diagnosing in the Home
Contribute to the 2022 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference and subsequent book project!
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Read more: Top Health Considerations in the European Commission’s ‘Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence’ Top Health Considerations in the European Commission’s ‘Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence’
On April 21, 2021, the European Commission released a “first-ever” legal framework on artificial intelligence.
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Read more: Fake Vaccine Cards and the Challenges of Decentralized Health Data Fake Vaccine Cards and the Challenges of Decentralized Health Data
Without a centralized database of vaccination data, it will be that much harder to verify an individual’s eligibility to be a pass holder.
