{"id":58239,"date":"2025-02-12T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/?p=58239"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:29:33","slug":"high-reward-high-risk-technologies-an-ethical-and-legal-account-of-ai-development-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freestatesocialwork.com\/?p=58239","title":{"rendered":"High-Reward, High Risk Technologies? An Ethical and Legal Account of AI Development in Healthcare (2 credit hours)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Program Summary: \u00a0<\/strong>The reading for this course asks important legal and ethical questions related to the emergence of AI in healthcare.\u00a0 For example, should the final decisions in medical matters depend on human judgment alone? What does informed consent look like when treatment includes opaque, unintelligible AI algorithms? How can a patient challenge a decision if the health professional cannot clearly explain how or why they proposed a certain treatment? What probability of error is acceptable in AI models? \u00a0Who should be held responsible for AI errors? \u00a0<\/em>This course examines the main ethical and legal considerations for AI development in healthcare and highlights ethical principles of\u00a0privacy, confidentiality, autonomy, informed consent, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. \u00a0Issues of bias, responsibility, liability, and the transformation of work are also discussed. \u00a0This course identifies a need for healthcare workers to expand their AI competence with a special emphasis placed on ethical and legal considerations.<\/p>\n

This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice. \u00a0This course is not recommended for NBCC ethics credit.<\/em>
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Reading: \u00a0<\/strong>High-Reward, High-Risk Technologies? \u00a0An Ethical and Legal Account of AI development in Healthcare\u00a0Authors<\/strong>: \u00a0Maelenn Corfmat, Joe T. Martineau, and Catherine Regis\u00a0Publisher<\/strong>: BMC Medical Ethics<\/p>\n

\"\u201cBook\" \u00a0Open the Course Reading Here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Course\u00a0Objectives:<\/strong>\u00a0 To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring the main ethical and legal considerations for AI in healthcare.<\/p>\n

Learning Objectives: \u00a0<\/strong>Describe the conceptual differences between ethics and the law. \u00a0Identify the main ethical and legal considerations associated with AI in healthcare. \u00a0Identify recommendations for healthcare professionals as they include AI in their practice.<\/p>\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t