![]() Professional organisations could take a leading role to provide more clarity with respect to physicians’ responsibility, by developing guidance describing physicians’ duty of care in the context of digital health, and to address the resulting responsibilities. In other words: to do what is best for patients (not causing harm and doing good). In the absence of appropriate legal frameworks and codes of conduct tailored to digital health, physicians’ responsibility is to be found in their general duty of care. This context is particularly challenging because different stakeholders interact. Key dilemmas take place in clinical settings and within the doctor-patient relationship (‘professional digital health’). The emerging general theme was ‘uncertainty regarding responsibilities’ when adopting digital health. MethodsĪ series of multidisciplinary focus groups with stakeholders who have relevant digital health expertise were analysed through thematic analysis. This was part of an overarching project aiming to explore the most pressing ethical and legal obstacles regarding the implementation and adoption of digital health in the Netherlands, and to propose actionable solutions. ![]() ![]() This study aimed to identify challenges regarding responsibility and liability when prescribing digital health in clinical practice. Implementation of digital health (eHealth) generally involves adapting pre-established and carefully considered processes or routines, and still raises multiple ethical and legal dilemmas.
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