The Ethics of Medical AI and the Physician-Patient Relationship
The Ethics of Medical AI and the Physician-Patient Relationship
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DOI:
10.1017/s0963180119000847
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发表时间:
2020-01-01
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Dalton-Brown, Sally
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作者:
Dalton-Brown, Sally
This article considers recent ethical topics relating to medical AI. After a general discussion of recent medical AI innovations, and a more analytic look at related ethical issues such as data privacy, physician dependency on poorly understood AI helpware, bias in data used to create algorithms post-GDPR, and changes to the patient-physician relationship, the article examines the issue of so-called robot doctors. Whereas the so-called democratization of healthcare due to health wearables and increased access to medical information might suggest a positive shift in the patient-physician relationship, the physician's 'need to care' might be irreplaceable, and robot healthcare workers ('robot carers') might be seen as contributing to dehumanized healthcare practices.