In May 2020, healthcare software company Orion Health announced the New Zealand Algorithm Hub, a center for scenario modeling, risk prediction, forecasting and planning to support the country’s response to COVID-19.
For Kevin Ross, PhD, CEO of Precision Driven Health and chair of the hub’s governance group, one key to ethically using machine learning to manage the pandemic was the makeup of the...
In the tech world, the name Theranos creates a direct synapse with scandal and fraud. Once a Silicon Valley darling, the biotech company, which focused on blood tests, was exposed for its fraudulent claims and brought down in disgrace.
As the health and tech sectors continue to fuse, it is important to remember the ethics behind the tech, Erika Cheung, a key whistleblower in the Theranos scandal...
From Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica woes to news of the first deaths attributable to autonomous cars, the tech industry has lately found itself engulfed in moral controversies.
Unfortunately, the health tech sector is no different. Just this year, multiple consumer exercise apps revealed classified GPS and identifying data through their APIs, genetic testing companies continue to grapple with...
