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. 2019 Sep 12;11(3):299-314.
doi: 10.1007/s41649-019-00096-0. eCollection 2019 Sep.

AI-Assisted Decision-making in Healthcare: The Application of an Ethics Framework for Big Data in Health and Research

Tamra Lysaght  1 , Hannah Yeefen Lim  2 , Vicki Xafis  1 , Kee Yuan Ngiam  3
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AI-Assisted Decision-making in Healthcare: The Application of an Ethics Framework for Big Data in Health and Research

Tamra Lysaght et al. Asian Bioeth Rev. .

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform healthcare. Key ethical issues to emerge with this transformation encompass the accountability and transparency of the decisions made by AI-based systems, the potential for group harms arising from algorithmic bias and the professional roles and integrity of clinicians. These concerns must be balanced against the imperatives of generating public benefit with more efficient healthcare systems from the vastly higher and accurate computational power of AI. In weighing up these issues, this paper applies the deliberative balancing approach of the Ethics Framework for Big Data in Health and Research (Xafis et al. 2019). The analysis applies relevant values identified from the framework to demonstrate how decision-makers can draw on them to develop and implement AI-assisted support systems into healthcare and clinical practice ethically and responsibly. Please refer to Xafis et al. (2019) in this special issue of the Asian Bioethics Review for more information on how this framework is to be used, including a full explanation of the key values involved and the balancing approach used in the case study at the end of this paper.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Big data; Bioethics; Clinical decision-making support systems; Professional governance.

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