The Googlization of Health Research: From Disruptive Innovation to Disruptive Ethics

Tamar Sharon · 2016 · Personalized Medicine

Summary. Large technology companies like Google and Apple are entering health research through consumer mobile devices that collect health data. While portrayed as beneficial disruption, this shift creates serious ethical problems: research quality concerns, privacy violations, and power imbalances where tech companies control data and infrastructure. The author argues that these power asymmetries deserve urgent critical attention because they shape which health research gets conducted.

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DOI

10.2217/pme-2016-0057

Countries

Netherlands

Regions

Europe

Categories

broadband-and-digital, rural-healthcare, general-innovation

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2026-04-28