Navigating Sensitive Hospital Conversations in the Age of Telemedicine
A case of sensitive health news delivered via telemedicine incites questions about the use of technology in critical care conversations.
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Read more: Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part II: Potential Impact on US Data Sharing Regulations Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part II: Potential Impact on US Data Sharing Regulations
A recent US lawsuit highlights crucial challenges at the interface of data utility, patient privacy & data misuse By Timo Minssen (CeBIL, UCPH), Sara Gerke & Carmel Shachar Earlier, we discussed the new suit filed against Google, the University of Chicago (UC), and UChicago Medicine, focusing on the disclosure of patient data from UC to…
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Read more: Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part I: The Background Is Data Sharing Caring Enough About Patient Privacy? Part I: The Background
By Timo Minssen (CeBIL, UCPH), Sara Gerke & Carmel Shachar A recent US lawsuit highlights crucial challenges at the interface of data utility, patient privacy & data misuse The huge prospects of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML), as well as the increasing trend toward public-private partnerships in biomedical innovation, stress the importance of an effective…
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Read more: Please and Thank You: Do we Have Moral Obligations Towards Emotionally Intelligent Machines? Please and Thank You: Do we Have Moral Obligations Towards Emotionally Intelligent Machines?
Do you owe Alexa your politeness? Do you owe any moral consideration whatsoever to an AI?
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Read more: What Should Happen to our Medical Records When We Die? What Should Happen to our Medical Records When We Die?
In the next 200 years, at least 20 billion people will die — and the issue of how best to manage their posthumous medical records is unclear.
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Read more: On Social Suicide Prevention, Don’t Let the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good On Social Suicide Prevention, Don’t Let the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good
The argument that Facebook’s suicide prediction algorithm should be subject to the same regulatory regime as medicine and digital health is misguided and alarmist.
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Read more: Sex Robots are Here, But Can the Law Keep Up The With Ethics and Privacy Issues? Sex Robots are Here, But Can the Law Keep Up The With Ethics and Privacy Issues?
As a scholar of artificial intelligence, neuroscience and the law, I’m interested in the legal and policy questions that sex robots pose.
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Read more: A User-Focused Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Health Tech Governance A User-Focused Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for AI-Enabled Health Tech Governance
A new working paper from participants in the AI-Health Working Group sets forth a research agenda for stakeholders to proactively collaborate and design AI technologies that work with users to improve their health and wellbeing.
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Read more: The Tricky Task of Defining AI in the Law The Tricky Task of Defining AI in the Law
If you ask someone to define AI, you will get no universal answer. One of the key challenges in legislating AI will be to define it.
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Read more: Machine Learning in Medicine: Addressing Ethical Challenges Machine Learning in Medicine: Addressing Ethical Challenges
Machine learning in medicine is accelerating at an incredible rate, bringing a new era of ethical and regulatory challenges to the clinic. In a new paper published in PLOS Medicine, Effy Vayena, Alessandro Blasimme, and I. Glenn Cohen spell out these ethical challenges and offer suggestions for how Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), medical practitioners, and…
