Integrating caring technology into healthcare
In today's healthcare landscape, technology plays an important role in delivering personalized and effective care. From fall-prevention sensors to telehealth consultations and wearable health monitors, technology offers many solutions. However, with the vast amount of data collected, concerns arise regarding privacy, consent, literacy, equity, and inclusion. Addressing these issues is crucial to ensure technology effectively meets people's health and well-being needs.
Navigating ethical frameworks
Despite the emergence of ethical technology assessment frameworks over the past two decades, consensus on guiding values and implementation safeguards remains elusive.
Critical questions persist: What values should drive technological health innovation? How can these principles translate into tangible technological solutions? Establishing support systems for responsible innovation processes and tool evaluation is imperative.
Crafting a principles-based framework
Recognizing the urgent need for consistency, the Dr. Daniël De Coninck Fund initiated the development of a comprehensive framework. This initiative aimed to provide guidance across all stages of technology development, implementation, and usage, ensuring innovations in healthcare prioritize data security, equity, participatory governance, quality assurance, and trustworthiness.
Read more about the process leading to the formulation of the principles in French, or Dutch.
Dr. Daniël De Coninck Fund
The Dr. Daniël De Coninck Fund invests in accessible, high-quality, and humane primary care. It aims to improve the health and quality of life of those who need care and those who provide it. The Fund is an initiative of the White-Yellow Cross West Flanders and is managed by the King Baudouin Foundation.
