Category: Healthcare

Closing the Public Health Ethics Gap

COVID-19, PREVENT Pandemics Act, Public Health

Author: Efthimios Parasidis, Amy L. Fairchild; Publisher: The New England Journal of Medicine; Publication Year: 2022. The following article argues that a lack of professional ethicists on public health teams during the pandemic was a…
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Ethical Challenges Posed by Big Data

Autonomy, Big Data, Consent, Data Collection, Equity, Privacy Protection, Training Data

Author: Edmund G. Howe, Falicia Elenberg; Publisher: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience; Publication Year: 2020. The following paper discusses how Big Data is becoming a larger field within the world of data science as more and…
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Healthcare Researchers Must Be Wary of Misusing AI

Algorithms, Clinical Research, Decision-Making, Machine Learning

Author: Duke-NUS Medical School; Publisher: Science Daily; Publication Year: 2022. The following article advises that strong care needs to be taken not to misuse or overuse machine learning in healthcare research. An international team of…
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The Need for Ethical Data Models for Comprehensive Data Sharing

Depersonalization, Health Data, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HIPPA, Patient Privacy, Population Medicine

Author: Derek Baird; Publisher: MedCity News; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how the U.S. has lagged behind their developed nation counterparts in regards to patient and consumer privacy protections. The 30 year old…
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Ethics of Using and Sharing Clinical Imaging Data for Artificial Intelligence: A Proposed Framework

Clinical Data, Ethical Data Usage, Health Information, Personal Data

Author: David B Larson, David C Magnus, Matthew P Lungren, Nigam H Shah, Curtis P Langlotz; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how when we use data to serve…
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Gaining a Competitive Advantage Through Data Ethics

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Data Ownership, Data Protection, Machine Learning, Transparency

Author: Danielle Clifford; Publisher: Pinsent Masons; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how the data ethics challenge spans multiple vectors. One of the most concerning issues centers around the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…
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Amazon’s $3.9 billion One Medical Acquisition is Already Raising Data Privacy Concerns

Amazon, Data Use, Healthcare, One Medical, Roe v. Wade

Author: Clint Rainey; Publisher: Fast Company; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon recently acquired One Medical, a subscription-based healthcare services company. There are concerns over what Amazon will do with the protected…
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Emerging Ethical Issues Regarding Digital Health Data. On the World Medical Association Draft Declaration on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks

Biomedical Studies, Consent, Health Biobanks, Health databases, Human Materials, Personally Identifiable Information, WMA, World Medical Association

Author: Christine Aicardi Publisher: National Library of Medicine Publication Year: 2016. The following article talks about the World Medical Association (WMA) draft on Ethical Considerations Regarding Health Databases and Biobanks. The draft Declaration indeed stresses…
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Overcoming AI Bias to Empower an Equitable Society

Algorithmic Authenticity, Algorithms, Criminology, Healthcare, Predictive Models

Author: Caslee Sims; Publisher: SAS; Publication Year: 2021. The following article talks about how algorithms and predictive models in health care and criminal justice can change the trajectory of someone’s life. Caslee provides two important…
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