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Digital determinants of health: opportunities and risks amidst health inequities

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Digital transformation offers unprecedented opportunities for advancing healthcare, but also raises complex ethical and legal challenges. Emerging drivers of health disparity termed ‘digital determinants of health’ call for purposeful, equity-focused strategies to ensure that technological innovation benefits all without exacerbating disparities.

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  1. Department of Critical Care, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, UK

    Jack Gallifant

  2. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Leo Anthony Celi

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Leo Anthony Celi

  4. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Leo Anthony Celi

  5. The Law School, Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Robin L. Pierce

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Gallifant, J., Celi, L.A. & Pierce, R.L. Digital determinants of health: opportunities and risks amidst health inequities. Nat Rev Nephrol 19, 749–750 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-023-00763-4

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