Ethical Issues

Ethical Issues:

• The potential monitoring of peoples health could be questionable

• Would charging money for available information be ethical

• Would the production of these sensors cause any sort of environmental damage

Ethical Solution:

• All the information regarding someone's health and location of potential exposure will be given voluntarily. The only information recorded will be the pathogen detected and relative particle concentration

• This business would be run based on donations, similar to a Wikipedia model

• Sensors will be aimed to be made with 50% recylcled material

Product Liability:

• If someone is diagnosed incorrectly and given the wrong treatment, we are responsible for those consequences

• If the patient uses our device to get a diagnosis and then gets treatment from an out of network healthcare facility we are not liable

• If a person has underlying conditions with comorbidities with a disease they are exposed to, we are unable to account for that

Product Liability Solutions:

• Our company will have insurance typical to malpractice insurance. This will allow us to monetarily compensate those that receive an incorrect treatment

• Our company does not provide direct treatment. This means that our partnered medical professionals also share in liability

• We will partner with physicians that are properly equipped to handle these comorbidities

Social Impacts:

• Allows people to be more confident in their personal health

• Allows for a more healthy society where people are more aware of any potential disease exposure

• Product will have a 5 year lifetime

• Disposal shall be through our company, where we will be able to refurbish and repurpose used product