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.
Sara Gerke
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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: Ethical and legal issues of ingestible electronic sensors 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 & I. Glenn Cohen In our new paper, we discuss the ethical challenges of ingestible electronics sensors (IESs; also called “smart pills”) and examine the legal regulation of such sensors in the United States and Europe. IESs are…
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Read more: Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part II: Potential Impact on US Data Sharing Regulations Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part II: Potential Impact on US Data Sharing Regulations
A recent US lawsuit highlights crucial challenges at the interface of data utility, patient privacy & data misuse By Timo Minssen (CeBIL, UCPH), Sara Gerke & Carmel Shachar Earlier, we discussed the new suit filed against Google, the University of Chicago (UC), and UChicago Medicine, focusing on the disclosure of patient data from UC to…
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Read more: Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part I: The Background 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 learning (ML), as well as the increasing trend toward public-private partnerships in biomedical innovation, stress the importance of an effective…
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Read more: A User-Focused Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Health Tech Governance 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.
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Read more: The Tricky Task of Defining AI in the Law 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.
