Questão 12 - IDOMED Medicina 2023/2

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) ISSUES FIRST GLOBAL REPORT ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN HEALTH

 

Growing use of AI for health presents governments, providers, and communities with opportunities and challenges

 

28 June 2021  

 

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, according to new WHO guidance published today.

    “Like all new technology, artificial intelligence holds enormous potential for improving the health of millions of people around the world, but like all technology it can also be misused and cause harm,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “This important new report provides a valuable guide for countries on how to maximize the benefits of AI, while minimizing its risks and avoiding its pitfalls.”

    WHO’s new report cautions against overestimating the benefits of AI for health, especially when this occurs at the expense of core investments and strategies required to achieve universal health coverage. It also points out that opportunities are linked to challenges and risks, including unethical collection and use of health data, biases encoded in algorithms, and risks of AI to patient safety, cybersecurity and the environment.

    AI systems should therefore be carefully designed to reflect the diversity of socio-economic and health-care settings. They should be accompanied by training in digital skills, community engagement and awareness-raising, especially for millions of healthcare workers who will require digital literacy or retraining, if their roles and functions are automated, and who must contend with machines that could challenge the decision-making and autonomy of providers and patients.

    Ultimately, guided by existing laws and human rights obligations, and new laws and policies that enshrine ethical principles, governments, providers, and designers must work together to address ethics and human rights concerns at every stage of an AI technology’s design, development, and deployment.

Adapted from: who.int. Accessed April 10 2023.

“Like all new technology, artificial intelligence holds enormous potential for improving the health of millions of people around the world, but like all technology it can also be misused and cause harm,...”

 

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