Digit-HeaL lab members at the ESPMH international conference in Poland

On August 24-27, 2022, two team members of the Digital healthcare ethics laboratory – research group leader Anto Čartolovni and research group member Luka Poslon, presented their work in Warsaw, Poland at the 34th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, under the theme of Diversity and Bioethics.

The conference was organised by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care , the Centre for Bioethics and Biological Law of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, and the Bioethics Committee of the Presidency of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The conference focused on moral challenges, religious and cultural diversity in health care, life sciences and bioethics. The following topics were among those explored at the conference: the relationship between patients and physicians, the rights and duties of patients and physicians, the appeal to conscience in medicine, the management of diversity, moral pluralism and the value of human life, cultural diversity, health concepts and more.

Anto Čartolovni, Digit-HeaL research group leader, delivered a lecture entitled AI as the third pillar of a future patient-doctor relationship: the case of breast cancer screening, where he addressed the role of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening and the future ramifications reflected on the relationship between the physician and the patient. Luka Poslon, member of the Laboratory and Anto Čartolovni, held a joint lecture titled Dynamic Informed Consent in AI medical applications wherein they outlined the benefits of using dynamic informed consent in the application of algorithms in medical decision making.