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http://www.metamedica.ugent.be 04-04-2019 14:30:20
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📰 Fresh from "press" our new paper "A Blanket That Leaves the Feet Cold: Exploring the AI Act Safety Framework for Medical AI". Tom Goffin (follows in the comments - Spoiler allert🚨🚨) brill.com/view/journals/…

📢 New research out from the dime-project! Seppe Segers and Michiel De Proost explore how the current wave of allegedly disruptive innovation is invoking a resurgence of the concept of "medical necessity" and related debates on the goal(s) of medicine. Metamedica UGent European Research Council (ERC) 👇

📢 Check out the new blog post by Michiel De Proost on the Metamedica website! Does the notion of medical necessity require recalibration in the face of disruptive innovation in healthcare? metamedica.ugent.be/sample-page/bl… ... or read the full paper here 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… DIME

About eldercare robots... "Alternative approaches are possible and readily available. Most obviously, paying care workers more, improving working conditions, better supporting informal caregivers, providing more effective social support for older people" technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/106…

The #HELT2023 Symposium is just around the corner! Join us for an insightful discussion on the #EHDS and its role in creating a single market for data with Íñigo de Miguel @AnnabelSeebohm Mahsa Shabani , Owe Langfeldt and Stephen Gilbert! Register now: hall.research.vub.be/helt-2023-0


Now Patricia Cervera de la Cruz our PhD student presenting on the concept of fairness in secondary uses of health date for research purposes




Keynote lecture on the ethics of AI in healthcare by DIME PI Heidi Mertes at the 2nd International Conference on the Ethics of AI (ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/2-i…) in Porto, organised by Steven Gouveia. Take home messages (see next tweet):


Very exited to be hosting a Fondation Brocher workshop this week on "Shifting responsibilities in healthcare due to disruptive innovation: ethical, legal, and social implications", as part of our European Research Council (ERC) DIME project. Updated programme 👉 canva.com/design/DAFkrG7…

Inspiring first day of our Fondation Brocher workshop on Shifting responsibilities in healthcare due to disruptive innovation, with Jeroen Hopster ESDiT Consortium talking about conceptual disruption (which you can read about here: pure.tudelft.nl/ws/files/15903…)


On the second and final day of our Fondation Brocher workshop on Shifting responsibilities in healthcare due to disruptive innovation, part of the European Research Council (ERC) project DIME, we welcomed 4 more excellent speakers, a thread:

Thanks again to all the speakers and participants who contributed to the success of our Fondation Brocher workshop in Geneva on behalf of the DIME team! Heidi Mertes Michiel De Proost Metamedica UGent


New blogpost of one of our Metamedica UGent-PhDs Sofia Palmieri entitled “A brief reflection on the approved AI Act and Healthcare AI”