Digital Health: Bioethical and Legal Challenges2025-10-05T18:04:29+00:00

 

The use of artificial intelligence in health care creates many new challenges, therefore bioethics needs a more nuanced analysis in designing the normative framework for the regulation of health care applications of AI solutions. While artificial intelligence may enhance accuracy in medical diagnosis and therapies, one could reasonably foresee that the right to healthcare and the right to personalized care might be interpreted very differently in the future. For example, effective healthcare could be provided with the assistance of technology, but it may also mean that Ai-based precision medicine will not necessarily offer personal services as before. If patients are replaced by digital data in biomedical research, it will make it easier to handle huge medical databases. However, small errors may be amplified and create complex liability cases. Communication, which is also a basic element of the classical patient–doctor relationship, will also be altered when a chatbot acts as an interface and laboratory tests are interpreted by artificial intelligence instead of humans. This would presuppose much more autonomy and knowledge on the patient side, as well. Emerging technologies are often regarded as transformative technologies. Nevertheless, the way advanced technologies transform our life is not predetermined by the invention itself, but by careful and sensitive implementation, which is a multidisciplinary work and requires the engagement of society.

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