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Digital health rules and regulations: an overview

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With the proliferation of digital health around the globe, there is involvement of one too many stakeholders, across the entire spectrum of service offerings. What may have started as a focus on the platforms, and care providers, now witnesses and ascribes several duties and obligations which are carved out for the end users, the patients in this case. In this article, we are deep diving into the rules and regulations involving the digital health ecosystem. Some are common across the globe, while some are still finding its bearings in a nascent community and heterogenous structure, like the healthcare system in India. This article will also highlight ethical concerns tied to the practice, especially where reliance is placed on human-centric data, submitted by individuals (caregivers, patients, alike), and populated in the devices used by the stakeholders. With challenges around privacy growing, digital health is also bracing its shields, without losing sight of the primary objective of universal health coverage and wellness being brought to the last mile.

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Puhan, B., Gupta, S. Digital health rules and regulations: an overview. CSIT 11, 97–102 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40012-023-00370-5

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