Flanigan Lecture 2024
30th
Annual
Flanigan Lecture
Leaving Patients to Their Own Devices:
Will 24/7 AI Health Apps Make Us Healthier?
Lecture Description
Do you monitor your heart rate, blood oxygen or sleep on a smart watch or track your walks, bike rides and runs on a smart phone?
Direct-to-consumer health apps like these are increasingly popular because they presumably:
- Provide cheap, user friendly, 24/7 access to personal health information
- Allow users to manage their own health with the information
- Help users ask doctors the right questions
- Give users “self-knowledge through numbers”
But they also raise concerns:
- Blind trust in technology and algorithms that have not gone through rigorous testing
- Limited evidence of clinical value or even accuracy
- Data collection outside of clinical settings changing the meaning of autonomy, privacy and well-being
- Corporations increasingly owning and sharing our personal and health data
- Potential impact on therapeutic relationships and health systems
Anita Ho, PhD, MPH, will weigh pros and cons of AI in personal healthcare to help you understand ethics implications and make informed decisions about using AI healthcare apps and devices.
After Dr. Ho’s lecture, Dr. Jarrett will join her in a brief discussion about AI followed by a question and answer session with the on-site audience.
Award Presentation Honoring the 2024 Ethics Champions
Quality healthcare relies on ethics-rich environments. Ethics-rich environments rely on ethics champions. From CEOs and clinical staff to volunteers serving on ethics committees, healthcare institutions need ethics champions at all levels of the organization.
Join us in honoring two individuals who impact the ethical compass of their institutions, the community and future generations of healthcare providers.
Maria Fox, DNP, APRN-CNS, HEC-C
Director of Advanced Practice Providers, The University of Kansas Health System
Mark Hoffman, PhD
Chief Research Information Officer, Children’s Mercy and Children’s Mercy Research Institute
Lecture Speakers
Dr. Anita Ho, PhD, MPH
Speaker
Anita Ho is a bioethicist with unique combined academic training and experience in philosophy, clinical/organizational ethics, public and global health, and business. She is a Clinical Professor at University of British Columbia Centre for Applied Ethics and Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco Bioethics Program. She is also the Vice President in Ethics for CommonSpirit Health in California, an elected fellow of The Hastings Center, and a Center for Practical Bioethics Board Member. Her recent book, Live Like Nobody is Watching: Relational Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Monitoring, was published by Oxford University Press in May 2023.
Dr. Tarris (Terry) Rosell, PhD, DMin, HEC-C
Host
Terry Rosell has been a bioethicist with the Center for more than 20 years. He serves as the Rosemary Flanigan Chair, providing ethics consultation for the University of Kansas Health System, where he co-chairs the Hospital Ethics Committee and directs the Ethics Consultation Service. He also co-directs the Clendening Summer Fellowship program for the KU School of Medicine and is a Professor of Pastoral Theology at Central Seminary.
Dr. Lindsey Jarrett, PhD
Expert Guest
Serving as the Vice President of Ethical AI, Lindsey Jarrett leads the Ethical AI Initiative sponsored by the Center and regional collaborators to identify and articulate ethical problems, risks and potential harms associated with the unexamined use of artificial intelligence and machine learning when applied to heath information and services.
Lecture Details
Date and Time
Monday, September 30, 2024
7:00 – 8:30 pm CT
In-Person Attendance
St. Joseph Medical Center
Community Center for Health and Education, Bldg. D
1000 Carondelet Drive, Kansas City, MO 64114
Map of Community Center and Parking
Complimentary reception starts at 6:00 pm CT. Lecture starts at 7:00 pm CT. Registration required for this free event.
Virtual Attendance
Lecture 7:00 – 8:30 pm CT
Will broadcast live via YouTube.
Registration required for this free event. Your broadcast link will be emailed to you. A recording of the lecture will be emailed to you once the lecture recording is available on YouTube.
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