Emerging ethical issues regarding digital health data on the world medical association draft declaration on ethical considerations regarding health databases and biobanks

This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.All authors are affiliated with the Data and IT in Health and Medicine Lab which is coordinated at the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine, King’s College London (datahealthmedicine.wordpress.com). This article builds upon a response submitted by the Lab to the World Medical Association consultation on the draft Declaration on Ethical Considerations regarding Health Databases and Biobanks in June 2015. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3334.4163. Barbara Prainsack is a member of the Navigating Knowledge Landscapes (NKL) network led by Anna Lydia Svalastog (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4576744/)