Responsible AI in Health Care

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to impact society in various and profound ways. It is inevitable that health care will face significant changes through the introduction of AI systems that are intended to support the health care system with diagnosis, treatment decision-making, hospital management, medical research and development, nursing care, and the health infrastructure (homecare, insurance etc.) more broadly.

The Purpose
The conference 'Responsible AI in Health Care' will clearly map how the introduction of AI in medicine unfolds, which aspects of the health care systems will be impacted most, and how this impact will unfold. First and foremost, it intends to discuss in depth, the question how to shape this transition in a responsible way.

As the WHO calls for “safe and ethical medical AI”, academics and practitioners are pressed to address the question,

which of the ongoing and future developments in medical AI are desirable or could be desirable under the right conditions. Prominent voices have suggested that the introduction of medical AI can “make medicine human again” (Topol 2019). Warnings, however, that the introduction of medical AI systems undermines the integrity of the patient-doctor relationship, that it threatens responsibility attribution in that system, that it reproduces existing social biases and inequalities (e.g. in diagnostic processes), that it disorients medical research and makes health care more inefficient, have equally been issued.

What would it mean to make AI practices and products responsible? What values would need to be implemented in the design of those technologies and how can this be done? What ways can we discover to ensure that health care stays responsible after the introduction of AI? These and other questions will be discussed in depth during this international conference.

Who is the conference for
The conference brings together medical specialists, academics, R&D teams, designers, start-ups and scale-ups to discuss state-of-the-art knowledge on responsible innovation, ethics and regulation. You can connect to inspiring opinion leaders, scientific experts and industry leaders on the development of AI for health care, you can meet peers and connect to the Research and Innovation ecosystem. This collaboration across disciplines and practices is the most promising avenue to optimal usage of AI in health care practice. All considerations, opinions, research approaches or project plans around responsible use of AI in healthcare are welcome in our debates, panels, keynotes, multidisciplinary roundtable discussions and start-up pitches.

This first event brings together international representatives of academia, business and industry focusing on developing AI responsibly, either from medical, ethical, social science, design, legal and data science perspectives.

Main topics

• Collection and sharing of healthcare data for AI (data projects)
• The (value-sensitive) development of AI systems and their fit with work floor demands
• Interactions between AI, healthcare professionals, and/or patients
• Implementation and operationalization of AI systems
• Evaluation and accountability of (socio-technical systems including) AI in healthcare
• Governance and regulation for AI in healthcare