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Regulation and Compliance in Telemedicine: Viewpoint

Regulation and Compliance in Telemedicine: Viewpoint

Specifically, this law prevents businesses from inferring health data about an individual based on purchases. It requires regulated entities or businesses to have information on this law within their privacy policies [17]. The My Health My Data Act reflects a general movement toward increased security of individual health information.

Julia Ivanova, Mollie R Cummins, Triton Ong, Hiral Soni, Janelle Barrera, Hattie Wilczewski, Brandon Welch, Brian Bunnell

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e53558

Regulating AI in Mental Health: Ethics of Care Perspective

Regulating AI in Mental Health: Ethics of Care Perspective

Although there is still no federal AI law in the United States, a few American states have suggested or enacted specific laws dealing with certain aspects of AI and the US Senate is working on an AI roadmap [30]. In May 2024, the Council of the European Union approved the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (the EU AI Act), which is considered to be the most comprehensive law to address AI to date [31].

Tamar Tavory

JMIR Ment Health 2024;11:e58493

Does an App a Day Keep the Doctor Away? AI Symptom Checker Applications, Entrenched Bias, and Professional Responsibility

Does an App a Day Keep the Doctor Away? AI Symptom Checker Applications, Entrenched Bias, and Professional Responsibility

It is not clear how app users interpret these warnings or whether waivers of nondiagnosis have the meaning in the law that they intend. It may be, for example, that a reviewing court will determine that an app’s tendency to draw causal associations between descriptions of symptoms and disease will constitute a diagnosis in potential contravention of reservations of professional activity to physicians [19].

Ma'n H Zawati, Michael Lang

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e50344

Twitter Sentiment About the US Federal Tobacco 21 Law: Mixed Methods Analysis

Twitter Sentiment About the US Federal Tobacco 21 Law: Mixed Methods Analysis

Although sentiment on Twitter toward the law has been explored [26], underlying themes of sentiment toward the federal Tobacco 21 law has not. Although text mining approaches can provide a broad exploration of more data about a topic [23], machine learning algorithms created to identify sentiment are limited by accuracy flaws and often require smaller annotated data sets to train these deep learning classification models [29].

Page D Dobbs, Allison Ames Boykin, Nnamdi Ezike, Aaron J Myers, Jason B Colditz, Brian A Primack

JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e50346

Performance of ChatGPT on UK Standardized Admission Tests: Insights From the BMAT, TMUA, LNAT, and TSA Examinations

Performance of ChatGPT on UK Standardized Admission Tests: Insights From the BMAT, TMUA, LNAT, and TSA Examinations

We evaluated Chat GPT’s performance on questions derived from various standardized admission tests in the United Kingdom, including the Bio Medical Admissions Test (BMAT), Test of Mathematics for University Admission (TMUA), Law National Aptitude Test (LNAT), and Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA) examinations.

Panagiotis Giannos, Orestis Delardas

JMIR Med Educ 2023;9:e47737

An Ethics Checklist for Digital Health Research in Psychiatry: Viewpoint

An Ethics Checklist for Digital Health Research in Psychiatry: Viewpoint

The Ethics Checklist is composed of 20 key questions, subdivided into six interrelated domains: (1) informed consent; (2) equity, diversity, and access; (3) privacy and partnerships; (4) regulation and law; (5) return of results; and (6) duty to warn and duty to report. The questions included in the checklist are presented in Table 1, and Multimedia Appendix 1 provides the Ethics Checklist as a user-friendly instrument for research teams.

Francis X Shen, Benjamin C Silverman, Patrick Monette, Sara Kimble, Scott L Rauch, Justin T Baker

J Med Internet Res 2022;24(2):e31146

US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences and Impede Public Health and Research: Survey Study

US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences and Impede Public Health and Research: Survey Study

Data protection laws have 5 fundamental elements: (1) a definition of protected data, (2) definition of a regulated person or entity, (3) data use or disclosure restrictions, (4) data use or disclosure exceptions, and (5) penalties for violating the law. It is common for data protection laws to vary wildly in these 5 elements [2-6]. Consequently, it can be exceptionally difficult to understand which law (or laws) apply to a data project and whether a proposed data use is permitted.

Cason Schmit, Theodoros Giannouchos, Mahin Ramezani, Qi Zheng, Michael A Morrisey, Hye-Chung Kum

J Med Internet Res 2021;23(7):e25266

Ethics and Law in Research on Algorithmic and Data-Driven Technology in Mental Health Care: Scoping Review

Ethics and Law in Research on Algorithmic and Data-Driven Technology in Mental Health Care: Scoping Review

Scholars in this field are typically concerned with issues of fairness, accountability, transparency, privacy, security, reliability, inclusivity, and safety, which are examined in contexts as diverse as criminal law, consumer transactions, health, public administration, migration, and employment.

Piers Gooding, Timothy Kariotis

JMIR Ment Health 2021;8(6):e24668