Bioethics Grand Rounds -Nicholson Price, Asst Professor of Law

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Wed, September 27, 2017, 12:00pm
Location: 
UH Ford Auditorium

Nicholson Price, Asst Professor of Law - "Black-Box Medicine"

Big data has been coming to health care for several years, and artificial intelligence is approaching even more rapidly.  What happens when these two phenomena meet in the context of clinical care?  How should clinicians deal with algorithms (whether embedded in EHRs or found on patients’ smartphones) that can predict outcomes, suggest diagnoses, and even recommend courses of treatment—all without explaining how they reach their conclusions?  This talk will describe the burgeoning field of black-box medicine, consider how the FDA can and should regulate this technology, and address liability and implementation concerns for clinicians today and in the near future.