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Blood informatics: negotiating the regulation and usership of personal devices for medical care and recreational self-monitoring

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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:18 authored by Alex Faulkner
This chapter approaches personal medical devices firstly by outlining the uncertain environment of existing and emerging regulatory regimes; and secondly, by examining actual and discursive local processes of adoption of exemplar devices both within and outside organised healthcare delivery systems, given the regulatory context of the UK and European Union. Two case studies are presented of portable devices that measure and/or monitor blood flow or blood pressure, one within medical jurisdiction, the other more or less ‘recreational’. European Union regulatory frameworks are shown to be struggling with the challenge of ‘mHealth’ innovations, and the concept of ‘technology identity’ is used to highlight key features of the devices in their uncertain regulatory context that shape the way in which the range of stakeholders and potential users understand, evaluate, and might actually use these devices.

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Page range

203-228

Pages

298.0

Book title

Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring health and technology through personal medical devices

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781349952359

Series

Health, Technology and Society

Department affiliated with

  • International Relations Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Centre for Global Health Policy Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-02-22

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-02-22

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