Opinion: Creating a digital Hippocratic oath for the 21st century

“First, do no harm.”
Those four words, and the Hippocratic oath of which they are a part, have served as an ethical guide for medical practitioners for centuries. While the oath itself has evolved over the years — a more modern one was coined by Dr. Louis Lasagna in 1964 — it hasn’t been updated since then and its application to modern health technology has stagnated. Read the rest…