Tag: medical error
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How to ensure safety for medical artificial intelligence
When we think of AI, we are naturally drawn to its power to transform diagnosis and treatment planning and weigh up its potential by comparing AI capabilities to those of humans. We have yet, however, to look at AI seriously through the lens of patient safety. What new risks do these technologies bring to patients,…
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Defensive Diagnostics: the legal implications of AI in radiology
Doctors are human. And humans make mistakes. And while scientific advancements have dramatically improved our ability to detect and treat illness, they have also engendered a perception of precision, exactness and infallibility. When patient expectations collide with human error, malpractice lawsuits are born. And it’s a very expensive problem. Source: Defensive Diagnostics: the legal implications…
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Patient safety: keynote from SAAHE conference
I finally got around to typing up some of my notes from the SAAHE conference. Here is the first keynote address I attended. It was a presentation by Professor Ara Tekian, the Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Illinois, entitled “Medical errors and patient safety: teaching and assessing at undergraduate level”. While…