AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare

The emergence of digital platforms and the new application economy are transforming healthcare and creating new opportunities and risks for all stakeholders in the medical ecosystem. Many of these developments rely heavily on data and AI algorithms to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor diseases and other health conditions. A broad range of medical, ethical and legal knowledge is now required to navigate this highly complex and fast-changing space. This collection brings together scholars from medicine and law, but also ethics, management, philosophy, and computer science, to examine current and future technological, policy and regulatory issues. In particular, the book addresses the challenge of integrating data protection and privacy concerns into the design of emerging healthcare products and services. With a number of comparative case studies, the book offers a high-level, global, and interdisciplinary perspective on the normative and policy dilemmas raised by the proliferation of information technologies in a healthcare context.

Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci is Associate Professor of Information Technology Law at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Michael Lowery Wilson is Associate Professor of Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland.

Mark Fenwick is Professor of International Business Law at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University, Japan.

Nikolaus Forgó is Professor of IT and IP Law at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Austria.

Till Bärnighausen is Professor in Epidemiology at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Germany.