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EU - FP 7: PHM-Ethics - Personalized health monitoring (PHM) - Interdisciplinary research to analyse the relationship between ethics, law and psychosocial as well as medical sciences.
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PROJEKT: The aim of the proposed collaborative research project is to scientifically conduct inter-disciplinary research to analyse the dependencies between ethics, law and bio-psychosocial sciences in personalized health monitoring (PHM) in relation to the major types and steps of this very dynamic part of IT-development from a European perspective. The objective is to develop a European approach to the combined regulation of ethical, philosophical, legal and bio-psychosocial constraints.
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In the first project phase, the development of PHM will be reviewed to identify core steps that delineate major changes from an ethical, legal and psychosocial point of view. A taxonomy will be elaborated based on the research evidence in each of the disciplines, and interrela-tions will be documented into a “map”. This research will be situated at the research and development phase of new technologies, however also at the early application phase. PHM-Ethics aims at deriving such a dependencies map as a tool to improve product development and at the same time to address relevant non technical-issues just on time. PHM-Ethics aims at coordinating the management of ethical analyses of technical lifecycles on a European level nevertheless addressing national specialities. As a major step in this phase, the implementation of ethical constraints contained in EU and international instruments into the national laws or regulations of member states will be analysed and a comparative analysis to identify areas of convergence and divergence will be conducted. Furthermore, gaps in the legislation and ethical regulation will be identified. At the end of project phase 1, the taxonomy and dependencies map will be validated in an international expert workshop.
The aims of the second project phase are to develop and test an interdisciplinary methodology or a standardized operating procedure that allows assessing PHM technologies regarding their ethical, legal and psychosocial consequences on specific steps of the taxonomy. A project objective is to develop both an interdisciplinary as well as an interactive ethical methodology, hence it will be a result of the project. The methodology will be interdisciplinary, since it will contain an ethical-philosophical, legal as well as a biopsychosocial module, which are interlinked with each other. The methodology is interactive since it includes the perspective of stakeholders (patients and providers) in its development. The modules will be pilot- tested on a qualitative basis and validated in selected personal health monitoring applications at different stages of the taxonomy. Results of an empirical study will be analysed in terms of differences between development stages as well as the differential impact of culture, gender, age and socio-economic status.
The third project phase is related to the dissemination and exploitation of knowledge and research products, with regard to policy making and implementation of technological innovations. The proposed project aims at providing an interdisciplinary research methodology that will allow the study of future PHM applications on different levels of the taxonomy concerning their consequences to serve both internal and external dissemination purposes within the 7th framework. In project phase 3, political actions that address the European coordination of the programme will be initiated, also aiming at projecting the methodology that has been developed to other technological fields.
Project details:
Funding period: Start: July 2009
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2399_EN_phm_infoposter.pdf
uni-greifswald.de
