Category: Healthcare

Ten Steps to Ethics-Based Governance of AI in Health Care

AI Bias, AI Strategy, AI Usage, Artificial Intelligence, Consent, Data Governance, Harm Avoidance, Transparency

Author: Satish Gattadahalli; Publisher: STAT; Publication Year: 2020. The following article talks about the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care which raises ethical issues that are paramount and fundamental in order to avoid…
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Ethical and Legal Challenges of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Healthcare

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Bad Training Data, Biased AI, Patient Care

Author: Sara Gerke, Timo Minssen, and Glenn Cohen; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2020. The following article is dense, but its biggest takeaway is the impact of getting things wrong is extremely high…
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Gaps in Measuring and Mitigating Implicit Bias in Healthcare

Implicit Association Test, Unconscious Bias

Author: Sally Arif; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2021. The following article focusses on how recent studies have shown that healthcare providers hold unconscious bias through the use of the Implicit Association Test…
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Big Data Phenotyping in Rare Diseases: Some Ethical Issues

Algorithms, Computational Phenotyping, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Algorithms, Personal Data

Author: Nina Hallowell, Michael Parker, Christoffer Nellåker; Publisher: Genetics in Medicine; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how computational phenotyping (using machine learning algorithms [MLAs] to analyze photographic images) has improved healthcare experience for…
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Providing Ease or Ethical Dilemmas?

Accuracy, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Data Usage, Machine Learning, Medical Research, Patient Care

Author: Nils Aoun, Chloé Currie, Itai Epstein, and Chaaron Nahar; Publisher: Maiei; Publication Year: 2022. The following article covers how research in medicine by people is at a plateau, many of the recent advancements are…
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Protecting Lives & Liberty: How Contact Tracing Apps Can Foil Both COVID-19 and Big Brother

COVID-19, COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Data Privacy, DP-3T Protocol, Location Data, Sensitive Data

Author: Nicky Case; Publisher: ncase.me; Publication Year: N/A. The following resource considers how should we balance leveraging sensitive data to combat important social issues (e.g., COVID-19 contact tracing) while ensuring data privacy? One answer is…
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Social Media, Big Data, and Mental Health: Current Advances and Ethical Implications

Big Data, Mental Health, Natural Language Processing Technology, Public Health, Social Media

Author: Mike Conway, Daniel O’Connor; Publisher: Current Opinion in Psychology; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how social media big data being combined with natural language processing (NLP) technology can address public health research…
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The Evolution of Data Ethics in Clinical Research and Drug Development

Advanced Analytic Techniques, Biometric Data, Clinical Research, Data Sourcing, Drug Development, Real World Data

Author: Melissa Heidelberg; Publisher: Ethics, Medicine and Public Health; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how the usage of advanced analytic techniques has revolutionized countless industries, and the clinical research and drug development industry…
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You Can’t Have AI Both Ways: Balancing Health Data Privacy and Access Fairly

Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection, Health AI, Health Improvement, Transparency

Author: Marieke Bak et al.; Publisher: Frontiers; Publication Year: 2022. The following resource describes how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in healthcare to fulfill its ethical ends to improve health. It discusses how governments…
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