Health Technology is also developing regularly as changes due to the fourth industrial revolution. In particular, due to COVID-19, the medical field is also rapidly increasingly utilizing ICT (Information and Communications Technology), which has grea ...
Health Technology is also developing regularly as changes due to the fourth industrial revolution. In particular, due to COVID-19, the medical field is also rapidly increasingly utilizing ICT (Information and Communications Technology), which has greatly influences the people with disability. These technologies that can be of great help to the people with disability, such as Artificial intelligence in medicine, big data, genetic testing, and robot rehabilitation, have emerged and have been focused on, so as to be used as a demonstration in real life.
However, even in this circumstance, certain people with disability have significantly less access to information on newly emerging health technologies.
If access to new information is delayed compared to that for people without disability, there will be an information gap, which will lead to health inequality.
Furthermore, since the existing information is tailored to the level of people without disability, it is difficult for people with disability with low cognitive abilities to acquire, distinguish, understand, and utilize health information to exercise self-determination in the medical field.
Therefore, this study aims to suggest ways to acquire, distinguish, understand, and utilize information, so that the people with disability can access the newly emerging health technology equivalent to people without disability. Through this, we tried to propose governance for society to move forward from a legal, ethical, and medical perspective, so that the people with disability can exercise their right to self-determination by providing sufficient information.