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Abstract
Innovative ways of healthcare delivery like m-Health, the practice of medicine by mobile devices and wearable devices are the promising new technique that may lead to improvement in quality of care at lower costs. While fully acknowledging the importance of m-Health development, there are challenges on privacy legislation. We address the legal framework, especially the General Data Protection Regulation, applied to m-Health and its implications for m-Health developments in Europe. We discuss how these rules are applied using a representative example of an m-Health programme with remote monitoring in the Netherlands. We consider informing patients about the data processing and obtaining their explicit consent as main responsibilities of healthcare providers introducing m-Health in their practice.
- mHealth
- medical apps
- remote monitoring
- remote diagnostics
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EW and SB are joint first authors.
MCP and MMW are joint last authors.
Contributors EW, SB, MCP, MMW: Planning writing. GAS, ETvdV, IIT, BS, MCCdW, BJHvdB: reviewing. LB: Writing. BAJMdM: Supervision.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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