Why Health Care Organizations Need Technology Ethics Committees

There is big money in using technology to find information in patient and medical staff data. Companies are rushing to cash in. The Food and Drug Administration has approved more than 40 artificial intelligence-based products for use in medicine. Tens of thousands of medical phone apps are tracking patients and gathering detailed medical information about them. These new technologies bring new ethical questions that health care organizations are poorly equipped to answer. The post Why Health Care Organizations Need Technology Ethics Committees appeared first on The Hastings Center.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Tags: Ethics Health Care apps artificial intelligence Hastings Bioethics Forum Health and Health Care health care technology syndicated Source Type: blogs