COVID-19 has accelerated broad trends already in place toward remote research data collection and monitoring. This move implicates novel ethical and regulatory challenges which have not yet received due attention. Existing work is preliminary and does not seek to identify or grapple with the issues in a rigorous and sophisticated way. Here, we provide a framework for identifying and addressing challenges that we believe can help the research community realize the benefits of remote technologies while preserving ethical ideals and public trust. We organize issues into several distinct categories and provide points to consider in a table that can help facilitate ethical design and review of research studies using remote health instruments.

COVID-19 加速了已经存在的远程研究数据收集和监控的广泛趋势。此举涉及尚未得到应有关注的新的伦理和监管挑战。现有的工作是初步的，并不寻求以严格和复杂的方式识别或解决问题。在这里，我们提供了一个识别和解决挑战的框架，我们相信这些挑战可以帮助研究界实现远程技术的好处，同时保持道德理想和公众信任。我们将问题分为几个不同的类别，并在表格中提供要考虑的要点，这有助于促进使用远程健康仪器的研究的伦理设计和审查。