1. Ethical issues in using ambient intelligence in health-care settings.
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Martinez-Martin N, Luo Z, Kaushal A, Adeli E, Haque A, Kelly SS, Wieten S, Cho MK, Magnus D, Fei-Fei L, Schulman K, and Milstein A
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- Algorithms, Data Collection, Digital Technology, Documentation methods, Health Personnel, Humans, Informed Consent, Machine Learning, Patient Care methods, Patient Safety, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Privacy, Quality of Health Care, Telemedicine methods, Telemetry methods, Wearable Electronic Devices, Ambient Intelligence, Bioethical Issues, Data Management ethics, Patient Care ethics, Telemedicine ethics, Telemetry ethics
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Ambient intelligence is increasingly finding applications in health-care settings, such as helping to ensure clinician and patient safety by monitoring staff compliance with clinical best practices or relieving staff of burdensome documentation tasks. Ambient intelligence involves using contactless sensors and contact-based wearable devices embedded in health-care settings to collect data (eg, imaging data of physical spaces, audio data, or body temperature), coupled with machine learning algorithms to efficiently and effectively interpret these data. Despite the promise of ambient intelligence to improve quality of care, the continuous collection of large amounts of sensor data in health-care settings presents ethical challenges, particularly in terms of privacy, data management, bias and fairness, and informed consent. Navigating these ethical issues is crucial not only for the success of individual uses, but for acceptance of the field as a whole., (Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
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- 2021
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