Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Transformation to 5P Medicine - Ethical Challenges.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

The paper introduces a structured approach to transforming healthcare towards personalized, preventive, predictive, participative precision (P5) medicine and the related organizational, methodological and technological requirements. Thereby, the deployment of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence is inevitably. The paper discusses opportunities and challenges of those technologies from a humanistic and ethical perspective. It shortly introduces the essential concepts and principles, and critically discusses some relevant projects. Finally, it offers ways for correctly representing, specifying, implementing and deploying autonomous and intelligent systems under an ethical perspective.

Authors

  • Bernd Blobel
    Medical Faculty, University of Regensburg, Germany.
  • Pekka Ruotsalainen
    Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC), Tampere University, Finland.
  • Mathias Brochhausen
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.
  • Frank Oemig
    Deutsche Telekom Healthcare and Security Solutions GmbH, Bonn, Germany.
  • Gustavo A Uribe
    The European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland.