Data Ethics
IDSC Data Ethics and Society program Director Dr. Ken Goodman will be a guest lecturer at Yale School of Medicine’s Program for Biomedical Ethics. The discussion “Ethics, Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence” will be held as a hybrid meeting: online via Zoom or in-person on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, from 5:00 to 6:30 PM. Read more “Ken Goodman on Ethics, Medicine + AI for Yale School of Medicine 9/6”
Publications
Contemporary bioethics was fledged and is sustained by challenges posed by new technologies. These technologies have affected many lives. Yet health informatics affects more lives than any of them. The challenges include the development and the appropriate uses and users of machine learning software, the balancing of privacy rights against the needs of public health and clinical practice in a time of Big Data analytics, whether and how to use this technology, and the role of ethics and standards in health policy. Read more “Yearbook of Medical Informatics: Ethics in Health Informatics”
Publications
Information technology has an increasing, and increasingly important, role in medical practice and research. This includes precision medicine and all its tools and strategies. This chapter begins with a review of the history of the electronic health record, then identifies and discusses the ethical issues and challenges that arise in precision medicine because of the essential role of information technology. Read more “Bioethics and Precision Medicine Focus on Information Technology”