The mobility and portability of healthcare creates technical, regulatory and administrative difficulties, and raises several ethical, social and political issues. An EU initiative assessed how portable mobile health technologies (mHTs) will affect and be affected by the current system of healthcare values.
With EU funding, the HEALTH ON THE MOVE (Health on the move: Exploring the ethical, social, and political underpinnings of portable devices for healthcare and lifestyle) project provided a systematic and empirically grounded ethical assessment of mHTs, and their use in and out of the clinic.
Further details: Better understanding of the ethical, social and political underpinnings of mobile health technologies