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Artificial Intelligence In The Medical System: Four Roles For Potential Transformation, Will Nicholson Price Ii
Artificial Intelligence In The Medical System: Four Roles For Potential Transformation, Will Nicholson Price Ii
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Artificial intelligence (AI) looks to transform the practice of medicine. As academics and policymakers alike turn to legal questions, a threshold issue involves what role AI will play in the larger medical system. This Article argues that AI can play at least four distinct roles in the medical system, each potentially transformative: pushing the frontiers of medical knowledge to increase the limits of medical performance, democratizing medical expertise by making specialist skills more available to non-specialists, automating drudgery within the medical system, and allocating scarce medical resources. Each role raises its own challenges, and an understanding of the four roles …
Privacy In The Age Of Medical Big Data, W. Nicholson Price Ii, I. Glenn Cohen
Privacy In The Age Of Medical Big Data, W. Nicholson Price Ii, I. Glenn Cohen
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Big data has become the ubiquitous watch word of medical innovation. The rapid development of machine-learning techniques and artificial intelligence in particular has promised to revolutionize medical practice from the allocation of resources to the diagnosis of complex diseases. But with big data comes big risks and challenges, among them significant questions about patient privacy. Here, we outline the legal and ethical challenges big data brings to patient privacy. We discuss, among other topics, how best to conceive of health privacy; the importance of equity, consent, and patient governance in data collection; discrimination in data uses; and how to handle …