Is There a Right for the Human Touch? AI and the Future of the Physician-Patient Relationship

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Is There a Right for the Human Touch? AI and the Future of the Physician-Patient Relationship

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper explores the multifaceted impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the physician-patient relationship, which remains a normative and functional cornerstone of healthcare systems. While current medical AI systems are primarily used for diagnostic support, administrative tasks, and predictive modelling, their increasing autonomy and integration raise urgent legal, ethical, and practical questions. The paper analyses how AI may affect core elements of this relationship, including informed consent, patient dignity, confidentiality, equity, and patient-centric care, drawing on relevant norms of international law and the four-principle framework of biomedical ethics (beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy).The study categorises concrete AI use cases in medicine (from diagnostic accuracy enhancement and clinical decision support to robotic care, personalised virtual assistants, or administrative automation) and evaluates their potential to either erode or enrich human interaction in healthcare. It argues that AI can help address long-standing structural deficits such as physician time constraints and system fragmentation, thereby enabling deeper communication, shared decision-making, and a potential revalorisation of generalist medical practice. However, these developments carry risks related to algorithmic bias, data privacy, technocratic paternalism, and professional deskilling, which require a thoughtful approach by all relevant stakeholders. Ultimately, this paper calls for an intentional integration of AI that strengthens human agency on both sides of the therapeutic alliance. In this way, the growing technical sophistication of medicine can be matched not by dehumanisation, but rather by a deepening of presence, empathy, and trust.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Is There a Right for the Human Touch? AI and the Future of the Physician-Patient Relationship

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper explores the multifaceted impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the physician-patient relationship, which remains a normative and functional cornerstone of healthcare systems. While current medical AI systems are primarily used for diagnostic support, administrative tasks, and predictive modelling, their increasing autonomy and integration raise urgent legal, ethical, and practical questions. The paper analyses how AI may affect core elements of this relationship, including informed consent, patient dignity, confidentiality, equity, and patient-centric care, drawing on relevant norms of international law and the four-principle framework of biomedical ethics (beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy).The study categorises concrete AI use cases in medicine (from diagnostic accuracy enhancement and clinical decision support to robotic care, personalised virtual assistants, or administrative automation) and evaluates their potential to either erode or enrich human interaction in healthcare. It argues that AI can help address long-standing structural deficits such as physician time constraints and system fragmentation, thereby enabling deeper communication, shared decision-making, and a potential revalorisation of generalist medical practice. However, these developments carry risks related to algorithmic bias, data privacy, technocratic paternalism, and professional deskilling, which require a thoughtful approach by all relevant stakeholders. Ultimately, this paper calls for an intentional integration of AI that strengthens human agency on both sides of the therapeutic alliance. In this way, the growing technical sophistication of medicine can be matched not by dehumanisation, but rather by a deepening of presence, empathy, and trust.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law

ISSN

1805-0565

e-ISSN

1805-0999

Svazek periodika

16

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

338-355

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105035594382