TY  - JOUR
AU  - Stake, Mandy
AU  - Heinrichs, Bert
TI  - Ethical Implications of e-Health Applications in Early Preventive Healthcare
JO  - Frontiers in genetics
VL  - 13
SN  - 1664-8021
CY  - Lausanne
PB  - Frontiers Media
M1  - FZJ-2022-03014
SP  - 902631
PY  - 2022
AB  - As a means of preventive medicine early detection and prevention examinations can identify and treat possible health disorders or abnormalities from an early age onwards. However, pediatric examinations are often widely spaced, and thus only snapshots of the children's and adolescents' developments are obtained. With e-health applications parents and adolescents could record developmental parameters much more frequently and regularly and transmit data directly for ongoing evaluation. AI technologies could be used to search for new and previously unknown patterns. Although e-health applications could improve preventive healthcare, there are serious concerns about the unlimited use of big data in medicine. Such concerns range from general skepticism about big data in medicine to specific challenges and risks in certain medical areas. In this paper, we will focus on preventive health care in pediatrics and explore ethical implications of e-health applications. Specifically, we will address opportunities and risks of app-based data collection and AI-based data evaluation for complementing established early detection and prevention examinations. To this end, we will explore the principle of the best interest of the child. Furthermore, we shall argue that difficult trade-offs need to be made between group benefit on the one hand and individual autonomy and privacy on the other.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 35899190
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000830175800001
DO  - DOI:10.3389/fgene.2022.902631
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/909104
ER  -