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. 2022 Jan 31;24(1):e33081. doi: 10.2196/33081

Table 2.

A process-oriented ethical map.

Operation process and operational problem Ethical issues
Data collection

Hypercollection
  • Autonomy

  • Informed consent

  • Right to privacy

  • Surveillance health care


Data quality and unorthodox use
  • Distortion of the understanding of health

Data management

Data ownership and data accessibility
  • Autonomy

  • Health equity


Data ownership and data brokerage
  • Autonomy or informed consent

  • Right to privacy

  • Transparency


Hacking
  • Right to privacy

Data analysis

Biased algorithms
  • Discrimination or injustice

  • Distortion of the understanding of health


Biased training data set
  • Discrimination or injustice

  • Distortion of the understanding of health

Information use

Decontextualization of disease formation
  • Autonomy

  • Distortion of the understanding of health

  • Victim blaming


Epistemic injustice
  • Autonomy

  • Distortion of the understanding of health

  • Damage physician–patient relationship


Overdiagnosis
  • Distortion of the understanding of health

  • Right to bodily integrity