Corporate Health Care: From Cost Controls to Medical Decision Making

2015 ◽  
pp. 154-193
Author(s):  
Christy Ford Chapin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Decision Making ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Cost Controls

May We Support Your Decision?

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Medical Decision Making ◽  
Electronic Patient Record ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Technical Developments

Expert systems to support medical decision-making have so far achieved few successes. Current technical developments, however, may overcome some of the limitations. Although there are several theoretical currents in medical artificial intelligence, there are signs of them converging. Meanwhile, decision support systems, which set themselves more modest goals than replicating or improving on clinicians' expertise, have come into routine use in places where an adequate electronic patient record exists. They may also be finding a wider role, assisting in the implementation of clinical practice guidelines. There is, however, still much uncertainty about the kinds of decision support that doctors and other health care professionals are likely to want or accept.

scholarly journals Liability issues for the use of artificial intelligence in health care in Canada: AI and medical decision-making

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mélanie Bourassa Forcier ◽  
Lara Khoury ◽  
Nathalie Vézina
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Decision Making ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Medical Decision

This paper explores Canadian liability concerns flowing from the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool assisting physicians in their medical decision-making. It argues that the current Canadian legal framework is sufficient, in most cases, to allow developers and users of AI technology to assess each stakeholder's responsibility should the technology cause harm.

Emotions and Medical Decision-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-194
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Gengler
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Decision Making ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Medical Decisions ◽  
Interactive Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Ethnographic Data

Sociologists have written surprisingly little about the role emotions play in medical decision-making, largely ceding this terrain to psychologists who conceptualize emotional influences on decision-making in primarily cognitive and individualistic terms. In this article, I use ethnographic data gathered from parents and physicians caring for children with life-threatening conditions to illustrate how emotions enter the medical decision-making process in fundamentally interactional ways. Because families and physicians alike often defined emotions as useful information to guide the decision-making process, both parties could leverage them in health care interactions by eliciting or demonstrating emotional investment, strategically deploying emotionally charged symbols, and using emotions as tiebreakers to help themselves and one another make choices in the midst of uncertainty. Constructing emotions as valuable in the decision-making process and effectively marshalling them in these ways offered a number of advantages. It could make decisions easier to arrive at, help people feel more confident in the decisions they made, and reduce interpersonal conflict. By connecting the dynamic role emotions can play in the interactive process through which medical decisions are made to the social advantages they can produce, I point to an underappreciated avenue through which inequalities in health care are perpetuated.

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