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Record W4417088249 · doi:10.1093/medlaw/fwaf043

Prescribing wearable tech

2025· article· en· W4417088249 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueMedical Law Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPrivacy, Security, and Data Protection
Canadian institutionsFuture Earth
FundersIan Potter FoundationDavid and Elaine Potter Foundation
KeywordsWearable computerWearable technologySmartwatchContext (archaeology)Health careInformation privacyExploratory researchData Protection Act 1998

Abstract

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Wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness bands are increasingly being touted for use in healthcare. The suggestion that they could enhance treatment while reducing costs has resonated with governments in the USA, the UK, and beyond. This exploratory article examines the regulatory challenges that arise as wearables transition from consumer to health contexts. The amount of data wearables generate poses a challenge to device manufacturers and data processors-whose terms and conditions and security measures have drawn numerous data protection, privacy, and surveillance concerns. This article presents findings from empirical research into contemporary use of wearables in the UK, based on a Freedom of Information request submitted to 37 National Health Service Hospital Trusts. It casts doubt on whether individual consent to data processing is appropriate for a healthcare context characterized by unequal power dynamics between patients, health professionals, and corporate interests. The assumption that consent will suffice forms the basis of existing regulations, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 and the UK Data Protection Act 2018. Alternative regulatory models, including open data and data sovereignty, should be considered if public healthcare systems are to utilize wearables without damaging patient trust and confidence.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.905
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.317 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it