New WISH report to focus on the ethical management of AI in healthcare

Upcoming report on Ethics of AI in Healthcare announced during panel discussion at the 17thWorld Congress of Bioethics in Doha Doha,Qatar: The Worl...

Upcoming report on Ethics of AI in Healthcare announced during panel discussion at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics in Doha

Doha, Qatar: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of Qatar Foundation (QF), has announced that it is to publish a report on the Ethics of AI in healthcare, exploring some of the most widely adopted practices of AI in healthcare and emphasizing the associated ethical challenges, particularly as they relate to the question of medical accountability.

The report will be published ahead of WISH 2024, which takes place this year on 13-14 November at the Qatar National Convention Centre, Doha, and will form the basis of discussions at the November event around the ethical implications of an increase in the use of AI in healthcare. While ethical considerations in general will feature in the report, particular emphasis will be given to exploring the relationship between AI and healthcare from an Islamic perspective.

Dr. Mohammed Ghaly, Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics and Head of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) College of Islamic Studies (CIS), at QF’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), will act as lead author of the report. Speaking at a panel discussion at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar on The Role of Ethics in AI-Driven Healthcare, he confirmed that AI in healthcare will be one of the main topics featured at WISH 2024 and announced the new report.

Dr. Ghaly said: “Both secular and religious moral traditions need to grapple with serious ethical challenges surrounding the use of AI in healthcare, including unequal access to this technology, privacy and data protection, obtaining informed consent, and how these elements would relate to the long-held set of values and etiquettes governing the patient-physician relationship.