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Empowerment or Engagement? Digital Health Technologies for Mental Healthcare
We argue that while digital health technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, smartphones, and virtual reality) present significant opportunities for improving the delivery of healthcare, key concepts that are used to evaluate and understand their impact can obscure significant ethical issues related to patient engagement and experience. Specifically, we focus on the concept of empowerment and ask whether it is adequate for addressing some significant ethical concerns that relate to digital health technologies for mental healthcare. We frame these concerns using five key ethical principles for AI ethics (i.e. autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and explicability), which have their roots in the bioethical literature, in order to critically evaluate the role that digital health technologies will have in the future of digital healthcare
Ethical issues and pervasive computing
There is a growing concern both publicly and professionally surrounding the implementation of Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their social and ethical impact. As these technologies
become increasingly pervasive and less visible to the user, there is a greater need for professionals to
address the concerns in order to regain public trust and maximise the benefits that these technologies
can bring. This chapter explores the ethical aspects of the world of pervasive computing and shows
the need for an ethical perspective when considering the design and implementation of complex, integrated,
multiple systems. We present the background to ethics and technology to give the foundation for
our discussion, and refer to current research and ethical principles to provide the argument for ethical
consideration. Finally, codes of professional conduct provide the standards, and endorsement, for
professional responsibility
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