FAU own research funding: EFI / IZKF / EAM ...
Start date : 01.07.2019
End date : 30.06.2020
In people with chronic diseases, sensors are increasingly being used in or on the body to monitor the patient's state of health and detect deterioration at an early stage. Which data are collected in this context is initially a medical-technical question. However, with the increasing prevalence of mobile data collection in everyday life and the usability of this data by different interest groups, it is clear that this is also an ethical question about data sovereignty. Therefore, it will be investigated how guidelines for the design of implantable or wearable medical sensor systems can be developed so that diagnostic, technical and also ethical requirements are met. The question has two objectives: on the one hand, to derive concrete instructions for medical engineers; on the other hand, the methodological question of the extent to which the different requirements can be weighed up against each other at all: Since incommensurability of norms can already occur within a closed ethical approach (e.g., Principlism), this is to be expected even more strongly for the requirements from different disciplines.