In this assignment, we would therefore like you to consider the question:
“What ethical issues need to be considered when increasing the use of digital healthcare?”
There are a number of different perspectives which you can take on this question, and you should feel free to make use of relevant examples in order to illustrate the discussion, which can include your own personal experience in this field, if appropriate.
You should consider ethical implications from both the perspectives of healthcare providers and patients.
You can discuss any of the different topics from the module from Digital Health, which includes, but are not limited to:
– eMental Health
– ePatients
– Electronic Healthcare Records
– Healthcare Apps
– Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
– Wearables and the Internet of Things
– Regulatory standards and frameworks
We would suggest that you cover between 3-4 of these themes in order to give you opportunity to analyse and discuss them in sufficient depth, as would be expected for work at Masters’ level.
We therefore expect that you use relevant theories and concepts from the module, but that you also demonstrate evidence of your own wider reading in this area in order to demonstrate your knowledge of the field of Digital Health in practice. Examples can be provided from any national context.