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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

In my experience of working with Psymposia since 2019 , there has been a sea change in the broader field’s reception of critical perspectives on psychedelic medicine over the past year. As each contribution emphasizes, these oversights have ethical implications for research design, informed consent processes, and public communication.

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How to Mitigate Ethical Challenges of AI-Driven Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The use of AI is revolutionizing the delivery of healthcare, but its use comes with significant ethical challenges that cannot be ignored, the most important of which involve bias and informed consent. . Another major ethical concern of AI use surrounds the principle of informed consent.

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When the Promises of a Policy Do Not Meet the Reality of Its Practice: Ethical Issues Within Oregon’s Measure 109

Bill of Health

What about informed consent and other ethical issues? While the current informed consent form used by facilitators does address some aspects of concern ( like the use of touch , 333-333-5040 (9) ), it does not address other aspects like suggestibility or power dynamics within the facilitator/client relationship.

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Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?

Bill of Health

And in 2019, the Justice Department asserted that the FDA does not even have the authority to regulate such drugs since “ the FDCA’s regulatory framework for ‘drugs’ and ‘devices’ cannot sensibly be applied ” to articles having an intended use not traditionally regulated by FDA (i.e.,

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Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory

Bill of Health

In 2019, a Chinese court found that Dr. He and his collaborators had “ forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into unknowingly implanting gene-edited embryos into two women ” in deliberate violation of national regulations on biomedical research and medical ethics.

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Introduction to Telebehavioral Health

AIHC

Higher rates of use of telehealth are now standard in many practices since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The requirement for consent is sometimes paired with other requirement such as the need to ensure the same level of care is delivered via telehealth as would be expected in-person.

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Harms and Biases Associated with the Social Determinants of Health Technology Movement

Bill of Health

billion dollars of health system funds were invested into SDOH efforts from 2017 to 2019. million in 2019 to $75.7 Informed Consent and Refusal. Additionally, there is a responsibility to ensure that any informed consent and refusal language is accessible to participants/users of the intervention.