With advancement in health technology comes great responsibility - Ethical and safety considerations for using digital health technology: A narrative review

Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Aug 16;103(33):e39136. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000039136.

ABSTRACT

The accelerated adoption of digital health technologies in the last decades has raised important ethical and safety concerns. Despite the potency and usefulness of digital health technologies, addressing safety, and ethical considerations needs to take greater prominence. This review paper focuses on ethical and safety facets, including health technology-related risks, users' safety and well-being risks, security and privacy concerns, and risks to transparency and diminished accountability associated with the utilization of digital health technologies. In order to maximize the potential of health technology benefits, awareness of safety risks, and ethical concerns should be increased, and the use of appropriate strategies and measures should be considered.

PMID:39151529 | DOI:10.1097/MD.0000000000039136