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The rapid rise of digital health technologies (DHTs), such as AI, electronic health records (EHRs), and wearables, poses complex ethical challenges that often outpace existing ethical frameworks. This chapter introduces a three-tiered framework, grounded in a socio-technical perspective, to structure these challenges across micro (individual), meso (organizational), and macro (societal) levels. By examining how ethical concerns such as responsibility, equity, and data governance emerge and interact across real-world healthcare contexts, the chapter supports more effective reflection on these issues. It concludes by identifying key areas for future research, calling for multi-layered, practice-based analyses to better address the evolving ethical tensions in digital health.

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Ethics Applied to Digital Healthcare: Navigating the Moral Landscape

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    2026年

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  • Zahra Niazkhani,
  • Iris Wallenburg,
  • Johanna Hendriks,
  • Rik Wehrens

摘要

The rapid rise of digital health technologies (DHTs), such as AI, electronic health records (EHRs), and wearables, poses complex ethical challenges that often outpace existing ethical frameworks. This chapter introduces a three-tiered framework, grounded in a socio-technical perspective, to structure these challenges across micro (individual), meso (organizational), and macro (societal) levels. By examining how ethical concerns such as responsibility, equity, and data governance emerge and interact across real-world healthcare contexts, the chapter supports more effective reflection on these issues. It concludes by identifying key areas for future research, calling for multi-layered, practice-based analyses to better address the evolving ethical tensions in digital health.