Journal of Medical Ethics Blog Post: Catriona McMillan
Wed 31 July 2019
Liminal Spaces Senior Research Fellow, Catriona McMillan has written a recent blog entitled, Alexa, does this look infected? – We need to talk about safely regulating the digitisation of healthcare, now' for the Journal of Medical Ethics.
The sale of health technologies for personal use has boomed in the past few years. At-home access to health information, and the means to track one’s health stats, have been criticised for unnecessarily increasing pressure on NHS services, and in some cases risking user safety. Perhaps surprisingly, however, most of these technologies are barely covered by regulation unless they claim to be diagnostic.