Launch date announced for report on ‘personalised’ healthcare
Wed, 7 July 2010
The Council will launch its report Medical profiling and online medicine: The ethics of 'personalised' health care in a consumer age on 12 October 2010 at a seminar in London.
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The report will identify the ethical values that are important when making decisions about interventions relating to a range of medical profiling and online medical services.
Recommendations will address the implications of developments in the following areas:
- Online health information, including general health information provision sites, disease-specific sites and interactive patient group websites
- Online personal health records, including those provided by public healthcare systems and those provided by commercial companies
- Online purchasing of pharmaceuticals, including buying from licensed online pharmacies in the UK and buying pharmaceuticals that are restricted or illegal in the UK, without a prescription
- Predictive testing, including body imaging and personal genetic profiling for susceptibility to common diseases
- Telemedicine
The full report and summary documents will be available to download from this website.
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Last Updated Tue, 31 August 2010