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Title:
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FROM THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH TO ELECTRONIC DATA STORAGE: ETHICAL ASPECTS FOR M-HEALTH PROJECTS IN AUSTRALIA |
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Author(s):
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Joost W. Brakel , Valerie Gay , Peter Leijdekkers |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-81-2 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Mobile health, Australian Healthcare, Ethics, Mobile Privacy, Telemedicine, Personalized Health Monitoring |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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115 |
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Last Page:
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122 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper discusses the issue of ethics when it comes to trialling m-health applications in a hospital environment in
Australia. Our team has developed a personalised health monitoring application for smart phones using wireless biosensors
to monitor and instruct patients. This paper discusses some of the Australian guidelines regarding ethical aspects
of running technological trials of such mobile health projects on cardiac patients. Ethical issues regarding mobile health
projects can be generally divided in two parts. The first one concerns any potential dangers to the patients health.
Although testing can also be done on healthy test subjects, the best way to acquire real-life test-data is to perform tests on
actual cardiac patients. The second one is the privacy aspect in the doctor-patient relationship as some patients do not
want to be identified as having a disease or do not want to have their records kept on file and used in scientific
publications. Nevertheless, to show the benefits of this personalized m-health monitoring, a technical trial has to be
conducted and research data needs to be published in a verifiable way.
This paper gives an introduction into ethical regulations, organizations and issues in Australia. It describes, in detail, the
issues involved in conducting technical trials in Australian hospitals. The paper gives several recommendations on how to
deal with ethics in personalised m-health monitoring projects. |
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