Artificial intelligence in health care: Balancing innovation with privacy | L’intelligence artificielle dans les soins de santé : mettre en balance l’innovation et la protection de la vie privée

Dr. Devin Singh is an emergency physician and lead of clinical AI and machine learning in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). He is also co-founder and CEO of Hero AI.

• Combining medicine and machine learning [2:21]
• A patient death as a spark for thinking differently about health care delivery [3:27] 
• Demystifying the integration of AI into pediatric emergency medicine [5:03]
• Real world applications of AI at SickKids [7:31]
• Privacy and ethical considerations when implementing AI [9:04] 
• Mitigating bias in data, ensuring representative data models [11:26]
• Transparency and obtaining informed consent from patients [14:05]
• Human oversight of AI systems and predictions [16:05]
• Respecting patient autonomy and decision making [20:10]
• Guarding against cybersecurity risks [23:02]
• How doctors use AI scribe technology [25:34]
• Predictions about the future of AI in health care [29:16]

Resources:

• AI scribe (OntarioMD pilot project)
• Privacy and humanity on the brink (blog by Commissioner Kosseim)
• IPC Strategic Priorities 2021-2025
• Trust in Digital Health(IPC resources)

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