The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Nat Med. 2020 Aug;26(8):1176-1182. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-0994-1. Epub 2020 Aug 7.
There has been increasing interest in the use of home monitoring technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic to decrease interpersonal contacts and the resultant risks of exposure for people to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This Perspective explores how the accelerated development of these technologies also raises major concerns pertaining to safety and privacy. We make recommendations for needed interventions to ensure safety and review best practices and US regulatory requirements for privacy and security. We discuss, among other topics, Emergency Use Authorizations for medical devices and privacy laws of the USA and Europe.
在 COVID-19 大流行期间,人们越来越关注使用家庭监测技术来减少人际接触,从而降低人们接触冠状病毒 SARS-CoV-2 的风险。本观点探讨了这些技术的加速发展如何也引发了与安全和隐私相关的重大问题。我们提出了确保安全所需的干预措施建议,并审查了美国和欧洲的隐私和安全的最佳实践和法规要求。我们讨论了医疗设备的紧急使用授权以及美国和欧洲的隐私法等主题。