Technological advances are offering new opportunities. For example, the application Symptomate can help patients identify possible causes of their symptoms, causes which their doctors might have missed because they are not the most common ones.
However, in an interview for the Polish Press Agency (PAP), Professor Justyna Król-Całkowska has warned of the risks involved in technological progress. Professor Król-Całkowska heads the Department of International and European Law at Łazarski University in Warsaw and is a Member of the Council of Experts advising the Patient's Rights Ombudsman.
Król-Całkowska said that a general problem with artificial intelligence in medical law is deciding who is responsible in the event of mistakes made by the algorithm. When a human doctor makes a mistake, responsibility is more transparent.
Another lawyer who has raised concerns, this time about challenges to the US Constitution represented by new technologies, is Professor Jeffrey Rosen. (See his page on the C-SPAN network.) Among other works, he is the co-editor of Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change, published by Brookings Press, Washington. Rosen has frequently expressed concerns about threats to privacy represented by social media.
Sources: PAP, C-SPAN
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