Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions on mobility, contact bans, mobile phone surveillance apps, and other strategies for containment of infection chains have led to a clear increase in the use of digital applications in public and private healthcare in the past year. Improved data analysis in the research, development, and testing of new therapies, as well as the growing potential of artificial intelligence for rapidly developed diagnostic methods and vaccine candidates, has also resulted in increased demand and application of digital aids among doctors, patients, hospitals, researchers, and companies. However, the use of these technical innovations has been accompanied by socio-economic and political discussions as well as lively ethical and legal debates. Issues such as data protection, cyber security, consent, transparency, discrimination, ownership, and a fair distribution and access to digital opportunities play an important role here. This chapter discusses central ethical and legal issues using concrete examples and provides an in-depth discussion of selected issues that not only illustrate ethical and legal problem areas and risks, but also show possible solutions.
In general, this chapter could only incorporate developments that have ocured before July 2021.
The research for this article was supported by a grant from the Collaborative Research Program for Biomedical Innovation Law, a scientifically independent collaborative research program supported by a Novo Nordisk Foundation grant (NNF17SA0027784). Special thanks go to the student assistant Verda Sigura for her support in organizing the literature list. The research of Timo Minssen was also supported by the initiative of the Wallenberg Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences Research in AI and Autonomous Systems (WASP-HS).
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Minssen, T., Gerke, S. (2023). Ethical and Legal Challenges of Digital Medicine in Pandemics. In: Reis, A., Schmidhuber, M., Frewer, A. (eds) Pandemics and Ethics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66872-6_12
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