There is a lack discussion surrounding the unconsented use of women’s clinical data for CTG analysis training in AI. Women should know when and how their data is being used, and benefit from their data use when corporations profit from it.
Central fetal monitoring systems are becoming more and more common in maternity services in high-income countries. Once-upon-a-time heart rate and contraction data were printed directly to paper. Increasingly, these data are turned into a digital signal and shown on a computer screen. Digital data are easy to move to a place outside the birth room. With central fetal monitoring, data are moved to a central location in the maternity service, […]
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