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The potential benefits of personal and mobile health technologies (also known as mHealth or eHealth) are becoming clearer. These technologies help reconfigure our relationship with our health, giving us access to new forms of data and new paths for reflection and self-improvement. These technologies can also become instruments for the delivery of health care, both through general lifestyle improvements and their use for clinical monitoring and interventions.

But is everyone able to access the benefits of these new technologies? Medical and public health professionals have always been concerned with ensuring access to health care services. But the benefits and risks of these new health technologies are spread unevenly throughout society. Is it possible that these new technologies are creating a new digital health divide? How can we account for the biases that might appear in these datasets that are increasingly being used to drive research and inform policy decisions?