New publication Ethical, legal, and social considerations of AI-based medical decision-support tools: A scoping review

The Digital healthcare ethics laboratory (Digit-HeaL) has published its second scientific paper in the high-level journal International Journal of Medical Informatics (Q1 – IF = 4.046) under the title Ethical, legal, and social considerations of AI-based medical decision-support tools: A scoping review. The authors of the paper are Anto Čartolovni, head of the Digit-HeaL lab research group, Ana Tomičić, member of the Digit-HeaL lab research group and Elvira Lazić Mosler from the School of Medicine at the Catholic University of Croatia. The paper is focused on the ethical, legal, and specifically on the social implications (ELSI) of the development of artificial...

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Digit-HeaL on the European Congress Qualitative Inquiry 2022

At the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2022, held on February 2-4, and organized by KU Leuven, Anamaria Malešević, Miriam Mary Brgles, Ana Tomičić , and Anto Čartolovni presented an interactive poster entitled Engaging critical thinking around future possibilities – health 4.0. and the scenario method. The Poster features an illustrated display of two scenarios used in the qualitative phase of research undertaken by the Digital healthcare ethics laboratory (Digit-HeaL), concerned with healthcare digitalization and innovation in Croatia. The scenarios depict an imaginary portrayal of a future application of digital technologies in healthcare. The first...

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Internship of Anamaria Malešević in the European Parliament

Anamaria Malešević, research assistant at the Digital healthcare ethics laboratory (Digit-HeaL), currently serves as an intern in the office of MEP Karl Ressler in the European Parliament. Anamaria Maleševic entered a competition in 2021 announced by Karlo Ressler’s office on the topic of digital and green transformation in Croatia and was awarded first place. This gave Anamaria the opportunity to actively participate in the work of the MP in Brussels. Karlo Ressler is Vice-Chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age (AIDA), providing an opportunity for Research Assistant Malešević to actively follow and be involved in the work of...

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Digit-HeaL is the newest member of the European Connected Health Alliance

We are proud to announce that the Digital healthcare ethics laboratory (Digit-HeaL) has become the newest member of the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance). ECHAlliance is the Global Health Connector for Digital Health, facilitating multi-stakeholder connections around health ecosystems, driving sustainable change and disruption in the delivery of health and social care. As a global community, ECHAlliance connects 78 countries and 4.4 billion people (Africa, Americas, Asia, Canada, Caribbean, China, Europe, India, the Pacific and USA). ECHAlliance brings together more than 20,000 experts – including government, health and social care providers, leading...

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