Ethical issues in using ambient intelligence in health-care settings

Ambient intelligence is increasingly finding applications in health-care settings, such as helping to ensure clinician and patient safety by monitoring staff compliance with clinical best practices or relieving staff of burdensome documentation tasks. Ambient intelligence involves using contactless...

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Published in:The Lancet. Digital health 2021-02, Vol.3 (2), p.e115-e123
Main Authors: Martinez-Martin, Nicole, Luo, Zelun, Kaushal, Amit, Adeli, Ehsan, Haque, Albert, Kelly, Sara S, Wieten, Sarah, Cho, Mildred K, Magnus, David, Fei-Fei, Li, Schulman, Kevin, Milstein, Arnold
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Ambient Intelligence
Bioethical Issues
Data Collection
Data Management - ethics
Digital Technology
Documentation - methods
Health Personnel
Humans
Informed Consent
Machine Learning
Patient Care - ethics
Patient Care - methods
Patient Safety
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Privacy
Quality of Health Care
Telemedicine - ethics
Telemedicine - methods
Telemetry - ethics
Telemetry - methods
Wearable Electronic Devices
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Summary:Ambient intelligence is increasingly finding applications in health-care settings, such as helping to ensure clinician and patient safety by monitoring staff compliance with clinical best practices or relieving staff of burdensome documentation tasks. Ambient intelligence involves using contactless sensors and contact-based wearable devices embedded in health-care settings to collect data (eg, imaging data of physical spaces, audio data, or body temperature), coupled with machine learning algorithms to efficiently and effectively interpret these data. Despite the promise of ambient intelligence to improve quality of care, the continuous collection of large amounts of sensor data in health-care settings presents ethical challenges, particularly in terms of privacy, data management, bias and fairness, and informed consent. Navigating these ethical issues is crucial not only for the success of individual uses, but for acceptance of the field as a whole.
ISSN:2589-7500
2589-7500
DOI:10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30275-2