Abstract Upon the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) application on 25 May
2018 across the European Union, new legal requirements for the protection of personal data …

The concept of sensitive data has been a mainstay of data protection for a number of
decades. The concept itself is used to denote several categories of data for which …

Scientific research is indispensable inter alia in order to treat harmful diseases, address
societal challenges and foster economic innovation. Such research is not the domain of a …

This article is the result of an international research between law and ethics scholars from
Universities in France and Switzerland, who have been closely collaborating with technical …

Personal health data is essential to many forms of scientific research. Such data may come
from a large variety of sources including electronic health records (ehr s), datasets used for …

Citizen science is an emerging trend with an ever greater number of adherents. It involves
the collection and contribution of large amounts of data by private individuals for scientific …

Regulation of medical devices has been one of the most notable regulatory initiatives of the
European Union. The need to ensure that medical devices are of a high quality is self …

Solutions for improving management of chronic conditions are under the attention of
healthcare systems, due to the increasing prevalence caused by demographic change and …

Innovative ways of healthcare delivery like m-Health, the practice of medicine by mobile
devices and wearable devices are the promising new technique that may lead to …

The use of mobile health applications provides a convenient platform to the healthcare
sector for conducting self-health monitoring, efficient consultation, health goals achievement …