Responsible Digital Health Innovation
Digital health promises to profoundly transform medicine. At the same time, however, it raises conspicuous ethical and regulatory issues. Our project aims to identify what regulatory and governance approaches can enable responsible, yet effective digital health innovation.
Given the complexity and fast-paced dynamics of digital health innovation, this project extensively employs participatory research methodologies. To date, we have involved well over 70 senior stakeholders including regulatory bodies, big pharmaceutical and technology companies, start-ups, and patient representatives. Through an interactive co-creation approach we have collaboratively defined the core impediments to responsible digital health and developed solution-oriented models. We further investigate how technological uncertainty can be addressed through regulation. The project’s core deliverable is to define key requirements for regulatory and governance tools and processes that will culminate in a regulatory roadmap for Switzerland. The project is funded by the external pageSwiss National Science Foundation'scall_made external pageNRP 77 grantcall_made.
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Project Team:
Effy Vayena
Alessandro Blasimme
Constantin Landers