Digital Health Care outside of Traditional Clinical Settings: Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities

Health care delivery is shifting away from the clinic and into the home. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth, wearable sensors, ambient surveillance, and other products was on the rise. In the coming years, patients will increasingly interact with digital products at every stage of their care, such as using wearable sensors to monitor changes in temperature or blood pressure, conducting self-directed testing before virtually meeting with a physician for a diagnosis, and using smart pills to document their adherence to prescribed treatments. This volume reflects on the explosion of at-home digital health care and explores the ethical, legal, regulatory, and reimbursement impacts of this shift away from the 20th-century focus on clinics and hospitals towards a more modern health care model. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

I. Glenn Cohen is the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law, as well as health law. He is the author of more than 150 articles and the author, editor, or co-editor of more than fifteen books.

Daniel B. Kramer is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on bioethics, health policy, and clinical outcomes related to the use of cardiovascular devices and procedures.

Julia Adler-Milstein is Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. Her work – more than 200 scholarly articles and book chapters – sits at the intersection of health policy and health informatics. In particular, she has examined how emerging technologies are shaping opportunities to improve diagnostic processes and outcomes.

Carmel Shachar is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School. She was previously Executive Director of Harvard Law's Petrie-Flom Center. Her work focuses on access to care and digital health and she is the co-editor of several volumes including Transparency in Health Care and Disability, Law, Health, and Bioethics.