Pérez Álvarez Salvador
Faculty of Law, Open University of Spain (UNED), Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
Bioethics. 2025 Jun;39(5):482-491. doi: 10.1111/bioe.13335. Epub 2024 Jul 30.
The progress the Internet has experienced in recent years has brought about huge changes and social transformation in all aspects of our lives. One such aspect greatly impacted has been our health, where we can talk about the existence of an 'Internet of Medical Things'. Amid this digital drift, we have seen the development of pharmaceutical drugs that provide information to patients and their attending healthcare teams concerning medication, doses ingested, and time of ingestion. These are digital pills or digital medication. In this context, the purpose of my paper is to analyze the ethical and legal impact of digital medication, further analyzing the implications concerning the right of service users to make decisions over their own health in Spain.
近年来互联网取得的进展给我们生活的方方面面带来了巨大变化和社会变革。其中一个受到极大影响的方面就是我们的健康，在这方面可以说存在着“医疗物联网”。在这种数字化潮流中，我们看到了一些药物的发展，这些药物能向患者及其主治医护团队提供有关用药、摄入剂量和摄入时间的信息。这些就是数字药丸或数字药物。在这种背景下，我撰写本文的目的是分析数字药物的伦理和法律影响，并进一步分析其对西班牙服务用户自主决定自身健康权利的影响。
