Human Bond Communications in Health

This paper focuses on the use of HBC for health applications, and in particular on the ethical and legal issues that arise. For many years, the use of ICT in medicine was limited to allowing communications between remote patients and doctors (telemedicine). In the last years, there has been a rapid evolution in the use of ICT in health. The IoT framework allows a pervasive monitoring of anything around and eventually inside us and this could really open the way to novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods. This rapid evolution has also posed several challenges as many things are not regulated yet. What will happen when HBC will be a reality. First of all, could HBC really enable novel applications in health? And if so, would that require a novel regulation?