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Socio-ethical challenges and opportunities for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in digital medicine.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Ethical Responsibility in Medical AI: A Semi-Systematic Thematic Review and Multilevel Governance Model.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Engagement with the national electronic health records by people with Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- A call for action to strengthen stakeholder readiness for ICF data exchange in European health data space: a structured narrative review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Personalized Nutrition in the Era of Digital Health: A New Frontier for Managing Diabetes and Obesity.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Data-driven FMEA approach for hazard identification and risk evaluation in digital health.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Engagement and attrition in digital mental health: current challenges and potential solutions.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Empowering Capabilities of People With Chronic Conditions Supported by Digital Health Technologies: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Insights into the Technological Evolution and Research Trends of Mobile Health: Bibliometric Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- A scoping review and expert consensus on digital determinants of health.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- Patient perspectives on the use of digital medical devices and health data for AI-driven personalised medicine in Parkinson's Disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Bridging digital health gaps in South Africa: A qualitative study of the digital divide, interoperability and health equity.Digital healthArticle
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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) inclusiveness in DMD clinical trials, (iii) algorithm fairness, (iv) surveillance and datafication, and (v) data privacy and trust. By integrating literature from multidisciplinary fields, including social, medical, and computer sciences, we shed light on challenges and opportunities related to the development and adoption of DMDs. We begin with an overview of the different types of DMDs, followed by in-depth discussions of five socio-ethical implications associated with their deployment. Concluding our review, we provide evidence-based multilevel recommendations aimed at fostering a more inclusive digital landscape to ensure that the development and integration of DMDs in healthcare mitigate rather than cause, maintain or exacerbate health inequities.
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