Regulatory, safety, and privacy concerns of home monitoring technologies during COVID-19

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...

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Published inNature medicine Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 1176 - 1182
Main Authors Gerke, Sara, Shachar, Carmel, Chai, Peter R, Cohen, I Glenn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Nature Publishing Group 01.08.2020
Subjects
Betacoronavirus - pathogenicity
Control
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Emergency medical services
Epidemics
Europe - epidemiology
Health aspects
Humans
Laws, regulations and rules
Medical equipment
Monitoring
Monitoring, Physiologic
Pandemics
Pandemics - legislation & jurisprudence
Patient monitoring equipment
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Privacy
Privacy, Right of
Safety
SARS-CoV-2
Security
Security Measures
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Social aspects
Telemedicine
United States - epidemiology
Viral diseases
United States
Europe
United States > US
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:1078-8956
1546-170X
1546-170X
DOI:10.1038/s41591-020-0994-1