Personalised Health Monitoring - Ethics

The general aim of this collaborative research project is to scientifically conduct inter-disciplinary research to analyse the dependencies between ethics, law and bio-psychosocial sciences in personalized health monitoring (PHM) in relation to the major types and steps of this very dynamic part of IT-development from a European perspective. One specific objective is to develop a European approach to the combined regulation of ethical, philosophical, legal and bio-psychosocial constraints. In the IST (=Information Society Technologies) area of the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework programme, major efforts have been undertaken towards developing and implementing PHM technologies, however no European or international guidelines exist which would be relevant for an ethical evaluation of these developments.

The project will carry out multidisciplinary research on ethical frameworks of personalized health monitoring (PHM) in relation to the major types of the technological development of PHM. "Ethical framework" refers to guidelines for design and implementation of PHM informed by relevant values and ethical principles. The results shall allow to foresee and to manage the development and the complex consequences likely to emerge in its process. It is focussing on societal embedding and implementation of new technologies in healthcare. The current project is therefore positioned in the field of emerging techno-ethics of human interaction with ICT.

ESF Collaborative FP 7-project within Science and Society
Additional funding: Hälsans nya verktyg

Co-ordinator:

Prof. Dr. Silke Schmidt, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald

Linköping group:

Göran Collste (group leader)
Anders Nordgren
Elin Palm

Publications:

Palm, Elin: "Who cares?" An analysis of ethical implications of PHM-based home care, forthcoming in Journal of Health Care Analysis

Collste, Göran: 5. Under my Skin: The Ethics of Ambient Computing for Personal Health Monitoring, Goran Collste, i The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research Edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Oxford University Press, Feb 2011

Palm, Elin: När vården flyttar hem till dig - den mobila vårdens etik, Etikk og Praxis, 2/2010

Collste, Göran: Applied Ethics and ICT-systems in Healthcare, in Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Medical Informatics, eds: Penny Duqnoi, Carslisle George and Kai Kimppa, Medical Information Science Reference: Hershey, New York, pp. 29-47., 2008

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