Ethical AI in Medicine: Balancing Innovation with Patient Privacy and Safety

Abstract

This paper explores the integration of AI in healthcare and its ethical considerations concerning innovation, patient privacy, and safety. It is a qualitative study that looks at the impact of AI on patient privacy, medical innovation, safety concerns, ethical frameworks, and the long-term implications on patient-doctor relationships. Findings indicate that, although AI presents significant breakthroughs in healthcare, it raises critical ethical challenges, which are the need for robust privacy protocols, ethical innovation strategies, comprehensive safety standards, refined ethical guidelines, and balanced patient-doctor dynamics. The study contributes to the discourse on ethical AI in healthcare by proposing strategies for its responsible integration.