Artificial intelligence in healthcare and medicine: promises, ethical challenges and governance
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being applied to a wide range of fields, including medicine, and has been considered as an approach that may augment or substitute human professionals in primary healthcare. However, AI also raises several challenges and ethical concerns. In this article, the author investigates and discusses three aspects of AI in medicine and healthcare: the application and promises of AI, special ethical concerns pertaining to AI in some frontier fields, and suggestive ethical governance systems. Despite great potentials of frontier AI research and development in the field of medical care, the ethical challenges induced by its applications has put forward new requirements for governance. To ensure "trustworthy" AI applications in healthcare and medicine, the creation of an ethical global governance framework and system as well as special guidelines for frontier AI applications in medicine are suggested. The most important aspects include the roles of governments in ethical auditing and the responsibilities of stakeholders in the ethical governance system.
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Researchers in healthcare can use Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to create various designs and assess the practicality without endangering the lives of human volunteers.
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- Authors
- Guan, J.
- Affiliations
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Guan, Jian
- Venue
- Chinese Medical Sciences Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-06
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 76-83
- ISSN
- 1001-9294 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2959065917
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 10
- FWCI
- 4.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Chinese Medical Sciences Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence in healthcare, AI ethics, ethical governance, trustworthy AI, ethical auditing, role of the state, stakeholder responsibility, primary care
- MeSH terms
- Artificial Intelligence, Delivery of Health Care, Humans
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