智慧医疗发展中的伦理问题

Ethical Issues in the Development of Smart Healthcare

智慧医疗是互联网、物联网、大数据分析和人工智能在医学领域的整合和应用的结果,目前,中国智慧医疗发展迅速。但智慧医疗优势与风险并存,面临伦理挑战和问题:因此,智慧医疗技术限制增加隐私泄露和延迟治疗的风险,医疗获益的区域公平问题向人群公平问题转移,并引起人文与科技关系的平衡问题。智慧医疗需要遵循伦理基本原则和临床医学伦理学的经验,充分发挥智慧医疗的福祉,其发展中的伦理挑战需要在法律层面规范,同时也要通过伦理层面规范和引导。

Smart healthcare is the outcome of integration and application of the internet,Internet of things(IOT),big data analysis and artificial intelligence(AI)in the medical field.Smart healthcare has been developed rapidly in China.However,smart healthcare has both advantages and risks,thus,it faces challenges and ethical issues in practice.Technological restrictions of smart healthcare increase the risk of privacy disclosure and delayed treatment.Besides,it also induce some ethical issues.Smart healthcare turns the“justice”issue of regional equity into the population equity of medical benefits.In addition,balancing between humanities and science technology should be considered.Smart healthcare should follow the basic ethical principles and the experience of clinical medical ethics.To give full play to the advantages of smart healthcare,the ethical challenges during its development must be regulated at the legal level,and simultaneously governed through ethical norms and guidance.