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ISSUE: World Health Organization
PROBLEM: Guaranteeing patient privacy, autonomy, and quality of care while developing AI
technologies for healthcare
MAIN SUBMITTER: Australia
CO-SUBMITTERS: Canada, France, Germany, Google, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Republic of Korea,
Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA

The World Health Organization committee,

Welcoming the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical field, which it is
revolutionising through the use of megadata (or "big data") and the automatic learning of

these devices,

Confident that there are opportunities for health services to become more accessible
and efficient through the intervention of artificial intelligence that will improve the efficiency of

data collection and analysis and reduce the cost of care to make services more affordable
for patients,

Encouraged by the fact that artificial intelligence is currently being used to make
paraplegic patients more mobile; to make diagnosis faster and more effective; to scan the
news for emerging and re-emerging disease threats; to develop new drugs and vaccines; and
that the scope of AI is still largely unexplored,

Convinced by AI’s ability to improve our response to disease outbreaks through early
warning systems, better outbreak forecasting, more effective decision-making and simulation

tools,

Considering that the data collected by neural networks in a systematic way will be able
to help anticipate health accidents, which will move medicine from curative to preventive,

Approving the content of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which is a
single regulation for all member countries of the European Union, guaranteeing the protection

of personal data and adapted to the evolution of technologies,

Concerned that the capacity to assess, study and demonstrate the public health,

economic, organizational, social, legal and ethical implications of health technologies and
interventions is inadequate in most developing countries and that, as a result, information is not
available to provide sound guidance for policy and professional decisions and practices,

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