Applying emergent ubiquitous technologies in health: The need to respond to new challenges of opportunity, expectation, and responsibility

摘要: Abstract In spite of their name, ‘ubiquitous’ technologies are not yet ubiquitous in the true sense word, but rather ‘novel’, being at research, pilot, and selective use stages. future, proliferation types application, major increase cases data volumes, above all dependence on to monitor persons risk, will raise practical, ethical, liability issues. Equally significantly, it require health service redesign, including new response services. Health informaticians need be active stimulating consideration these issues, as part both social professional responsibility.