Sync fast and solve things—best practices for responsible digital health
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2024-05-04
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Digital health innovation is expected to transform healthcare, but it also generates ethical and societal concerns, such as privacy risks, and biases that can compound existing health inequalities. While such concerns are widely recognized, existing regulatory principles, oversight methods and ethical frameworks seem out of sync with digital health innovation. New governance and innovation best practices are thus needed to bring such principles to bear with the reality of business, innovation, and regulation. To grant practical insight into best practices for responsible digital health innovation, we conducted a qualitative study based on an interactive engagement methodology. We engaged key stakeholders (n = 46) operating at the translational frontier of digital health. This approach allowed us to identify three clusters of governance and innovation best practices in digital health innovation: i) inclusive co-creation, ii) responsive regulation, and iii) value-driven innovation. Our study shows that realizing responsible digital health requires diverse stakeholders’ commitment to adapt innovation and regulation practices, embracing co-creation as the default modus operandi for digital health development. We describe these collaborative practices and show how they can ensure that innovation is neither slowed by overregulation, nor leads to unethical outcomes.
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Is new version of: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000646004