Digital health encompasses a wide range of novel digital technologies related to health and
medicine. Such technologies rely on recent advances in the collection and analysis of ever …

Background Ethics review is the process of assessing the ethics of research involving
humans. The Ethics Review Committee (ERC) is the key oversight mechanism designated to …

The application of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technologies in
healthcare have immense potential to improve the care of patients. While there are some …

Union has adopted a General Data Protection Regulation and Switzerland is drafting a
revision to its Federal Data Protection Act. Such reforms attempt to increase the data …

To address the ethical challenges in big data health research we propose the concept of
systemic oversight. This approach is based on six defining features (adaptivity, flexibility …

As neuroscience projects increase in scale and cross international borders, different ethical
principles, national and international laws, regulations, and policies for data sharing must be …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragmentation of the healthcare delivery systems
and highlighted the role of resilient primary healthcare systems for a robust public health …

Big data trends in health research challenge the oversight mechanism of the Research
Ethics Committees (RECs). The traditional standards of research quality and the mandate of …

The increased use of big data in the medical field has shifted the way in which biomedical
research is designed and carried out. The novelty of techniques and methods brought by big …

Social media (SM) research presents new challenges for research ethics committees
(RECs) who must balance familiar ethical principles with new notions of public availability …