The googlization of health research: from disruptive innovation to disruptive ethics

Personalized Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 563-574

  Sharon, Tamar ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

23andMe; Baseline study; Big data; Data intensive medicine; Ethical issues; Google genomics; Health apps; Privacy; Researchkit

Indexed keywords

ANONYMIZATION; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNET; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOBILE APPLICATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84994559161     PISSN: 17410541     EISSN: 1744828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/pme-2016-0057     Document Type: Review

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