Thinking ‘Oat’ of the BoxSeptember 9, 2019 |
Robert C. Miller, Jr. and our Marielle S. Gross, MD, MBE write about technology to resolve the ‘goldilocks data dilemma’
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How Should Scientists’ Access To Health Databanks Be Managed?September 6, 2019 |
More than a million Americans have donated genetic information and medical data for research projects. But how that information gets used varies a lot, depending on the philosophy of the organizations that have gathered the data
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Raises Legal and Ethical ConcernsSeptember 5, 2019 |
The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances
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When Apps Get Your Medical Data, Your Privacy May Go With ItSeptember 4, 2019 |
Americans may soon be able to get their medical records through smartphone apps as easily as they order takeout food from Seamless or catch a ride from Lyft. But prominent medical organizations are warning that patient data-sharing with apps could facilitate invasions of privacy — and they are fighting the change
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Harlan Krumholz writes, “At a time when many insurers and health information technology companies are busily assembling databases of hundreds of millions of medical records, Americans find it difficult to get access to their own”
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Until appropriate safeguards are in place, we need a moratorium on biometric technology that identifies individuals, says Kate Crawford
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Ethical and Legal Issues of Ingestible Electronic SensorsAugust 16, 2019 |
In their new paper, Glenn Cohen and Sara Gerke 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
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The Plan to Mine the World’s Research PapersJuly 17, 2019 |
A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis — but is it legal?
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