Socio-ethical challenges and opportunities for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in digital medicine.

ABSTRACT: Digitalization in medicine offers a significant opportunity to transform healthcare systems by providing novel digital tools and services to guide personalized prevention, prediction, diagnosis, treatment and disease management. This transformation raises a number of novel socio-ethical considerations for individuals and society as a whole, which need to be appropriately addressed to ensure that digital medical devices (DMDs) are widely adopted and benefit all patients as well as healthcare service providers. In this narrative review, based on a broad literature search in PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, we outline five core socio-ethical considerations in digital medicine that intersect with the notions of equity and digital inclusion: (i) access, use and engagement with DMDs, (ii)

SUBMITTER: Paccoud I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11450794 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature