About this Research Topic
Medical professionals frequently find themselves facing moral questions and ethical dilemmas every day in their line of work. Medical ethics provide a framework to help them make judgment calls that are morally sound and right for the patient in question. There are four pillars of medical ethics: beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice.
Much like medical professionals who handle patient care, researchers in regenerative technologies have an obligation to uphold the four pillars of medical ethics to ensure their end products are safe, reliable and morally sound. Ethics in medical technology mainly deals with the impact of technology on the society, the environment, impact on hospital procedures, and patients themselves. Furthermore, the digitalization of many aspects of the medical profession also results in a number of ethical dilemmas.
This Research Topic aims to promote good and quality medical innovation by identifying, analyzing, and attempting to resolve ethical problems that can arise.
We welcome original research, reviews, opinion and research reports addressing the medical ethics associated with the different disciplines of regenerative technologies and how they can be considered during research. This includes novel research in the field of medical devices that provide diagnostic data or deliver therapeutic benefits for the prediction of disease progression, or improvement of well-being and performance respectively. A few ethical dilemmas that would be welcome include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. The use and integration of data from different sources in the development and design of new technologies, especially confidentiality issues
2. Regulatory frameworks for approval of such technologies
3. Assessing equality for the design and implementation of medical devices e.g. gender, ethnicity, age etc.
4. Cost and affordability of medical devices to both healthcare providers and patients
5. The use of Artificial intelligence and machine learning
6. Personalized medicine
7. Impact of novel medical devices and technologies on existing hospital systems
8. Training and education of new medical devices and technologies in the workplace
9. Psychological impact of medical devices and technologies on patients
Much like medical professionals who handle patient care, researchers in regenerative technologies have an obligation to uphold the four pillars of medical ethics to ensure their end products are safe, reliable and morally sound. Ethics in medical technology mainly deals with the impact of technology on the society, the environment, impact on hospital procedures, and patients themselves. Furthermore, the digitalization of many aspects of the medical profession also results in a number of ethical dilemmas.
This Research Topic aims to promote good and quality medical innovation by identifying, analyzing, and attempting to resolve ethical problems that can arise.
We welcome original research, reviews, opinion and research reports addressing the medical ethics associated with the different disciplines of regenerative technologies and how they can be considered during research. This includes novel research in the field of medical devices that provide diagnostic data or deliver therapeutic benefits for the prediction of disease progression, or improvement of well-being and performance respectively. A few ethical dilemmas that would be welcome include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. The use and integration of data from different sources in the development and design of new technologies, especially confidentiality issues
2. Regulatory frameworks for approval of such technologies
3. Assessing equality for the design and implementation of medical devices e.g. gender, ethnicity, age etc.
4. Cost and affordability of medical devices to both healthcare providers and patients
5. The use of Artificial intelligence and machine learning
6. Personalized medicine
7. Impact of novel medical devices and technologies on existing hospital systems
8. Training and education of new medical devices and technologies in the workplace
9. Psychological impact of medical devices and technologies on patients
Keywords: Medical ethics, ethics, beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, justice
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