Ethical Challenges with Welfare Technology: A Review of the Literature

[1]  C. Hughes,et al.  Infection control strategies for preventing the transmission of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people. , 2013, The Cochrane database of systematic reviews.

[2]  Sarah E Lamb,et al.  Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community. , 2012, The Cochrane database of systematic reviews.

[3]  E. Mohammadi,et al.  Barriers and facilitators related to the implementation of a physiological track and trigger system: A systematic review of the qualitative evidence , 2017, International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care.

[4]  P. Wilmshurst.  The regulation of medical devices , 2011, BMJ : British Medical Journal.

[5]  C. Hughes,et al.  Infection control strategies for preventing the transmission of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people. , 2011, The Cochrane database of systematic reviews.

[6]  B. Hofmann.  Etiske utfordringer med velferdsteknologi , 2010 .

[7]  G. Paré,et al.  Clinical Effects of Home Telemonitoring in the Context of Diabetes, Asthma, Heart Failure and Hypertension: A Systematic Review , 2010, Journal of medical Internet research.

[8]  S. Cooper,et al.  Remote Control , 2002, Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987).

[9]  Tadashi Isa,et al.  Recent advances in brain-machine interfaces , 2009, Neural Networks.

[10]  Kathleen M Griffiths,et al.  Systematic Review on Internet Support Groups (ISGs) and Depression (2): What Is Known About Depression ISGs? , 2009, Journal of medical Internet research.

[11]  P. H. Kahn,et al.  Robotic Pets in Human Lives: Implications for the Human–Animal Bond and for Human Relationships with Personified Technologies , 2009 .

[12]  P. Tugwell,et al.  Electronic retrieval of health information by healthcare providers to improve practice and patient care. , 2009, The Cochrane database of systematic reviews.

[13]  R. Wynn,et al.  Exploring morally relevant issues facing families in their decisions to monitor the health-related behaviours of loved ones , 2009, Journal of Medical Ethics.

[14]  James R. Warren,et al.  The role of home-based information and communications technology interventions in chronic disease management: a systematic literature review , 2009, Health Informatics J..

[15]  B. Marić,et al.  A systematic review of telemonitoring technologies in heart failure , 2009, European Journal of Heart Failure.

[16]  Klaus Mainzer,et al.  From embodied mind to embodied robotics: Humanities and system theoretical aspects , 2009, Journal of Physiology-Paris.

[17]  J. Latimer,et al.  Un/knowing bodies , 2009 .

[18]  Ashok Bharucha,et al.  Ethical Perspectives on Emerging Assistive Technologies: Insights from Focus Groups with Stakeholders in Long-Term Care Facilities , 2009, Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE.

[19]  S Holm,et al.  Assistive technology, telecare and people with intellectual disabilities: ethical considerations , 2009, Journal of Medical Ethics.

[20]  Tony Gentry.  Smart homes for people with neurological disability: state of the art. , 2009, NeuroRehabilitation.

[21]  Medical Advisory Secretariat.  Home telemonitoring for type 2 diabetes: an evidence-based analysis. , 2009, Ontario health technology assessment series.

[22]  Marjorie Skubic,et al.  Older adults' privacy considerations for vision based recognition methods of eldercare applications. , 2009, Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine.

[23]  Vincent Rialle,et al.  What Do Family Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients Desire in Smart Home Technologies? , 2009, Methods of Information in Medicine.

[24]  A. Farrant.  The fair innings argument and increasing life spans , 2008, Journal of Medical Ethics.

[25]  A. Höglund,et al.  'It's easier to talk to a woman'. Aspects of gender in Swedish telenursing. , 2008, Journal of clinical nursing.

[26]  N. Noury,et al.  Health smart home for elders - a tool for automatic recognition of activities of daily living , 2008, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

[27]  Miquel Domènech,et al.  Embodying Autonomy in a Home Telecare Service 1 , 2008 .

[28]  Bernd Blobel,et al.  Identity-management factors in e-health and telemedicine applications , 2008, Journal of telemedicine and telecare.

[29]  W. Zijlstra,et al.  Wearable systems for monitoring mobility-related activities in older people: a systematic review , 2008, Clinical rehabilitation.

[30]  Nathan W. Moon,et al.  Wireless Technologies and Accessibility for People With Disabilities: Findings From a Policy Research Instrument , 2008, Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA.

[31]  Kenneth R Foster,et al.  Ethical Implications of Implantable Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) Tags in Humans , 2008, The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.

[32]  A. Niemeijer,et al.  Implantable Tags: Don't Close the Door for Aunt Millie! , 2008, The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.

[33]  Christian Nøhr,et al.  Under Surveillance, Yet Looked After: Telehomecare as Viewed by Patients and Their Spouse/Partners , 2008, European journal of cardiovascular nursing : journal of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Nursing of the European Society of Cardiology.

[34]  ELSKE AMMENWERTH,et al.  Review Paper: The Effect of Electronic Prescribing on Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events: A Systematic Review , 2008, J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc..

[35]  P. Bower,et al.  The effectiveness of self help technologies for emotional problems in adolescents: a systematic review , 2008, Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health.

[36]  A. Barak,et al.  A Comprehensive Review and a Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Internet-Based Psychotherapeutic Interventions , 2008 .

[37]  Eric Campo,et al.  A review of smart homes - Present state and future challenges , 2008, Comput. Methods Programs Biomed..

[38]  G. Hartvigsen,et al.  Current status and future perspectives in telecare for elderly people suffering from chronic diseases , 2008, Journal of telemedicine and telecare.

[39]  E. Seydel,et al.  Evaluation of Internet-Based Technology for Supporting Self-Care: Problems Encountered by Patients and Caregivers When Using Self-Care Applications , 2008, Journal of medical Internet research.

[40]  M. Aebi,et al.  Relations between surgeons and industry: the time of clarification has come , 2008, European Spine Journal.

[41]  I. Kohane,et al.  Correction: What Are the Benefits and Risks of Fitting Patients with Radiofrequency Identification Devices? , 2008, PLoS Medicine.

[42]  M. Skubic,et al.  Senior residents’ perceived need of and preferences for “smart home” sensor technologies , 2008, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care.

[43]  Maggie Mort,et al.  Future patients? Telehealthcare, roles and responsibilities. , 2007, Health & social care in the community.

[44]  B. Hofmann.  Etikk i vurdering av helsetiltak. Utvikling av en metode for å synliggjøre etiske utfordringer ved vurdering av helsetiltak , 2008 .

[45]  P. Reilly,et al.  Ethical and legal issues in nutritional genomics. , 2008, Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

[46]  S. Westin,et al.  Do diseases have a prestige hierarchy? A survey among physicians and medical students. , 2008, Social science & medicine.

[47]  G Demiris,et al.  Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living in an Aging Society , 2008, Methods of Information in Medicine.

[48]  Julian C. Hughes,et al.  Ethical Issues and Tagging in Dementia: a Survey , 2008 .

[49]  M. Małecki,et al.  The role of surrogate endpoints in the evaluation of efficacy and safety of therapeutic interventions in diabetes mellitus. , 2008, The review of diabetic studies : RDS.

[50]  Bernd Blobel,et al.  Mobile Health Requires Mobile Security: Challenges, Solutions, and Standardization , 2008, MIE.

[51]  Richard H. Dees.  Better Brains, Better Selves? The Ethics of Neuroenhancements , 2008, Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal.

[52]  Angelo Branzi,et al.  Telecardiology and Remote Monitoring of Implanted Electrical Devices: The Potential for Fresh Clinical Care Perspectives , 2007, Journal of General Internal Medicine.

[53]  Richard Wootton,et al.  A systematic review of successes and failures in home telehealth. Part 2: Final quality rating results , 2007 .

[54]  Ben Adida,et al.  What Are the Benefits and Risks of Fitting Patients with Radiofrequency Identification Devices , 2007, PLoS medicine.

[55]  Katie Brittain,et al.  Balancing rights and risks: Conflicting perspectives in the management of wandering in dementia , 2007 .

[56]  C. Nugent,et al.  Review of ICT-based services for identified unmet needs in people with dementia , 2007, Ageing Research Reviews.

[57]  Bill McQuaid.  Is all this technology really making patients safer? , 2007, Health data management.

[58]  B. Anderson,et al.  Initiatives to Promote Effective Self-Care Skills in Children and Adolescents with Diabetes Mellitus , 2007 .

[59]  D. Carlisle.  Euro35m ISTC deal scrapped. , 2007, The Health service journal.

[60]  T. van Achterberg,et al.  The impact of home parenteral nutrition on daily life-a review. , 2007, Clinical nutrition.

[61]  M. Nymark.  Patients' safety, privacy and effectiveness--a conflict of interests in health care information systems? , 2007, Medicine and law.

[62]  Sven Ove Hansson,et al.  The Ethics of Enabling Technology , 2007, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.

[63]  K. Bauer.  Wired Patients: Implantable Microchips and Biosensors in Patient Care , 2007, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.

[64]  Guy Paré,et al.  Review Paper: Systematic Review of Home Telemonitoring for Chronic Diseases: The Evidence Base , 2007, J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc..

[65]  J. Cleland,et al.  Telemonitoring or structured telephone support programmes for patients with chronic heart failure: systematic review and meta-analysis , 2007, BMJ : British Medical Journal.

[66]  F. García-Lizana,et al.  New technologies for chronic disease management and control: a systematic review , 2007, Journal of telemedicine and telecare.

[67]  J. Goodwin,et al.  Epidemiology of Medicare Abuse: The Example of Power Wheelchairs , 2007, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

[68]  H. Krumholz,et al.  Telemonitoring for patients with chronic heart failure: a systematic review. , 2007, Journal of cardiac failure.

[69]  Panos Markopoulos,et al.  Ambient intelligence, ethics and privacy , 2007 .

[70]  U. Sonn,et al.  Use of assistive devices – a reality full of contradictions in elderly persons' everyday life , 2007, Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology.

[71]  D Doyle,et al.  Ergonomics, patient safety, and engineering ethics: a case study and cautionary tale. , 2007, Journal of long-term effects of medical implants.

[72]  J. Doyle.  Biomedical engineers and participation in judicial executions: capital punishment as a technical problem. , 2007, Journal of long-term effects of medical implants.

[73]  Mohan V. Tatikonda,et al.  Radio Frequency Identification and the Ethics of Privacy , 2007 .

[74]  Inger Hagen,et al.  Technology in dementia care , 2007 .

[75]  Bjørn Hofmann,et al.  When means become ends: technology producing values , 2006, Seminar.net.

[76]  G. M. Davis,et al.  ‘It's okay, it helps me to breathe’: the experience of home ventilation from a child's perspective , 2006, Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community.

[77]  R. Wootton,et al.  A systematic review of successes and failures in home telehealth: preliminary results , 2006 .

[78]  Julienne Hanson,et al.  Big brother or brave new world? Telecare and its implications for older people’s independence and social inclusion , 2006 .

[79]  N. Plastow,et al.  Is Big Brother Watching You? Responding to Tagging and Tracking in Dementia Care , 2006 .

[80]  Stefan Sävenstedt,et al.  The duality in using information and communication technology in elder care. , 2006, Journal of advanced nursing.

[81]  Alex John London,et al.  Ethical Considerations in the Conduct of Electronic Surveillance Research , 2006, The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

[82]  T. Olsen,et al.  Early home-supported discharge of stroke patients: A health technology assessment , 2006, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care.

[83]  Kenneth R Boff,et al.  Revolutions and shifting paradigms in human factors & ergonomics. , 2006, Applied ergonomics.

[84]  B. Dickens,et al.  Legal and ethical issues in telemedicine and robotics , 2006, International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.

[85]  J. Rojo-álvarez,et al.  A systematic review of the literature on home monitoring for patients with heart failure , 2006, Journal of telemedicine and telecare.

[86]  N. Torres,et al.  Clinical use of enteral nutrition. , 2006 .

[87]  Robert Sparrow,et al.  In the hands of machines? The future of aged care , 2006, Minds and Machines.

[88]  Vladimir Labay,et al.  Ethical considerations and proposed guidelines for the use of radio frequency identification: Especially concerning its use for promoting public safety and national security , 2006, Science and engineering ethics.

[89]  P. Lehoux,et al.  Delivery of high-tech home care by hospital-based nursing units in Quebec: clinical and technical challenges. , 2006, Nursing leadership.

[90]  G. Gillett,et al.  Cyborgs and moral identity , 2006, Journal of Medical Ethics.

[91]  George Demiris,et al.  Ethical Considerations for the Utilization of Telehealth Technologies in Home and Hospice Care by the Nursing Profession , 2006, Nursing administration quarterly.

[92]  Isabel Margot-Cattin,et al.  Access technology and dementia care: Influences on residents’ everyday lives in a secure unit , 2006, Scandinavian journal of occupational therapy.

[93]  G. Alexander.  Issues of Trust and Ethics in Computerized Clinical Decision Support Systems , 2006, Nursing administration quarterly.

[94]  C. Levine.  Acceptance, Avoidance, and Ambiguity: Conflicting Social Values about Childhood Disability , 2005, Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal.

[95]  L. Tarassenko,et al.  A systematic review of telemedicine interventions to support blood glucose self‐monitoring in diabetes , 2005, Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association.

[96]  Rebecca Voelker,et al.  Rehabilitation medicine welcomes a robotic revolution. , 2005, JAMA.

[97]  P. Couturier,et al.  [Videophone assistance and home hospitalization: the ViSaDom program]. , 2005, Presse medicale.

[98]  J. Bosson,et al.  Téléassistance en hospitalisation à domicile: Le programme ViSaDom , 2005 .

[99]  S. Hansson,et al.  Implant ethics , 2005, Journal of Medical Ethics.

[100]  B. Hofmann.  Toward a procedure for integrating moral issues in health technology assessment , 2005, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care.

[101]  J. Castillo.  Technology doesn't have to thwart patient autonomy. , 2005, Nephrology news & issues.

[102]  Robert M. Anderson,et al.  Patient empowerment: reflections on the challenge of fostering the adoption of a new paradigm. , 2005, Patient education and counseling.

[103]  Bjørn Hofmann,et al.  On value-judgements and ethics in health technology assessment , 2005, Poiesis Prax..

[104]  F. Rabinowitz.  Review of The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin. , 2005 .

[105]  J. Gatward.  Electronic assistive technology: Benefits for all? , 2004 .

[106]  M. Hawley,et al.  Automatic fall detectors and the fear of falling , 2004, Journal of telemedicine and telecare.

[107]  T. Strandberg,et al.  Living Will, Resuscitation Preferences, and Attitudes towards Life in an Aged Population , 2004, Gerontology.

[108]  F. Miskelly.  A novel system of electronic tagging in patients with dementia and wandering. , 2004, Age and ageing.

[109]  Jai Mohan,et al.  The Malaysian Telehealth Flagship Application: a national approach to health data protection and utilisation and consumer rights , 2004, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[110]  J. Levy,et al.  Health Benefits and Risks of the Internet , 2002, Journal of Medical Systems.

[111]  Marilyn Cash,et al.  Assistive technology and people with dementia , 2003 .

[112]  K. Bauer.  Distributive justice and rural healthcare: a case for e-health. , 2003, The International journal of applied philosophy.

[113]  A. Louis,et al.  A systematic review of telemonitoring for the management of heart failure , 2003, European journal of heart failure.

[114]  A. Hassiotis,et al.  Big brother is watching you--the ethical implications of electronic surveillance measures in the elderly with dementia and in adults with learning difficulties , 2003, Aging & mental health.

[115]  Lennart Magnusson,et al.  Ethical issues arising from a research, technology and development project to support frail older people and their family carers at home. , 2003, Health & social care in the community.

[116]  A. Barrocas,et al.  Ethical and legal issues in nutrition support of the geriatric patient: the can, should, and must of nutrition support. , 2003, Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

[117]  S. Cahill.  Electronic tagging of people with dementia. Technologies may be enabling. , 2003, BMJ.

[118]  S. Stearns,et al.  Systematic review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and economic evaluation, of home versus hospital or satellite unit haemodialysis for people with end-stage renal failure. , 2003, Health technology assessment.

[119]  J. Hughes,et al.  Electronic tagging of people with dementia who wander , 2002, BMJ : British Medical Journal.

[120]  T. Drivsholm,et al.  [Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary health care and outpatient community settings]. , 2002, Ugeskrift for laeger.

[121]  Per Kristian Hilden.  [Technology and culture--HbA1c, self care and type 1 diabetes]. , 2002, Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke.

[122]  Josette F. Jones,et al.  Telehealth Interventions to Improve Clinical Nursing of Elders , 2002, Annual Review of Nursing Research.

[123]  P. Pugno.  Ethical Considerations of Electronic Communication in the Clinical Outpatient Setting , 2002, The Journal of Clinical Ethics.

[124]  B. Hofmann.  On the triad disease, illness and sickness. , 2002, The Journal of medicine and philosophy.

[125]  R. Goins,et al.  Telemedicine, Rural Elderly, and Policy Issues , 2002, Journal of aging & social policy.

[126]  T. Chapman.  There's No Place Like Home , 2001 .

[127]  J. Liaschenko.  Home care, novels, and the future. , 2001, Home care provider.

[128]  Monique Manhal-Baugus,et al.  E-Therapy: Practical, Ethical, and Legal Issues , 2001, Cyberpsychology Behav. Soc. Netw..

[129]  S. Hawker,et al.  Professional territories and the fragmented landscape of elderly care , 2001, The journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health.

[130]  B Hofmann,et al.  The technological invention of disease , 2001, Medical humanities.

[131]  R. Miyamoto,et al.  Cochlear implants in children. , 2001, Otolaryngologic clinics of North America.

[132]  Benedict Stanberry,et al.  Legal ethical and risk issues in telemedicine , 2001, Comput. Methods Programs Biomed..

[133]  W. Assendelft,et al.  Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary care, outpatient and community settings. , 2000, The Cochrane database of systematic reviews.

[134]  Y. Barilan,et al.  The naturalness of the artificial and our concepts of health, disease and medicine , 2001, Medicine, health care, and philosophy.

[135]  D. Hermans,et al.  Subjective barriers to prevent wandering of cognitively impaired people. , 2001, The Cochrane database of systematic reviews.

[136]  J. Jutai,et al.  Psychosocial Impact of Electronic Aids to Daily Living , 2000, Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA.

[137]  J. Hammer.  Home mechanical ventilation in children: indications and practical aspects. , 2000, Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift.

[138]  Stuart S. Blume,et al.  Technology Assessment and the Sociopolitics of Health Technologies , 2000, Journal of health politics, policy and law.

[139]  Vincent R. Waldron,et al.  The Nature and Prevention of Harm in Technology-Mediated Self-Help Settings: Three Exemplars , 2000 .

[140]  G. Paternoster,et al.  Peritoneal dialysis compared with hemodialysis in the treatment of end-stage renal disease. , 2000, Journal of nephrology.

[141]  C. P. Snow,et al.  The two cultures , 2006, Nature.

[142]  G. Widdershoven,et al.  Ethics and gerontechnology: a plea for integration. , 1998, Studies in health technology and informatics.

[143]  Albert Lozano-Nieto,et al.  How technology changes the way we teach-benefits and risks , 1998, IPCC 98. Contemporary Renaissance: Changing the Way we Communicate. Proceedings 1998 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (Cat. No.98CH36332).

[144]  J. Hardwig.  Is there a duty to die? , 1997, The Hastings Center report.

[145]  M. Milner.  The Potential of Technological Innovations for the Disabled , 1995, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care.

[146]  E. D. Ilsar,et al.  Remote home monitoring of health status of the elderly. , 1995, Medinfo. MEDINFO.

[147]  J. Liaschenko.  The moral geography of home care , 1994, ANS. Advances in nursing science.

[148]  J. Arras.  The technological tether. An introduction to ethical and social issues in high-tech home care. , 1994, The Hastings Center report.

[149]  J D Arras,et al.  Bringing the hospital home. Ethical and social implications of high-tech home care. , 1994, The Hastings Center report.

[150]  R. McShane,et al.  Tracking patients who wander: ethics and technology , 1994, The Lancet.

[151]  Ian Hughes.  Unwitting recruits to the army of the mentally ill , 1994 .

[152]  J. Lantos,et al.  Ethical aspects of pediatric home care. , 1992, Pediatrics.

[153]  Nondiscrimination on the basis of disability in state and local government services--Department of Justice. Final rule. , 1991, Federal register.

[154]  James E. Birren,et al.  The Concept and measurement of quality of life in the frail elderly , 1991 .

[155]  P. Mott.  The elderly and high technology medicine: A case for individualized, autonomous allocation , 1990, Theoretical medicine.

[156]  Atul Wad,et al.  Technology assessment , 1984 .

[157]  J. Habermas.  Theory of Communicative Action , 1981 .

[158]  M. Heidegger.  The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays , 1977 .

[159]  Chapin Se.  BRINGING THE HOSPITAL HOME. , 1964 .