Tack Laurent Saunier ! från Vinnova för intressant presentation av EU Kommissionen förslag till ny förordning för ett europeiskt hälsodataområde – European Health Data Space, EHDS. EHDS omfattar tillgång och delning av hälsodata både inom själva vården (primäranvändning) och för forskare och beslutsfattare (sekundäranvändning), samt medborgarnas kontroll över egna hälsodata. AI är en viktig komponent. Extra tack också till Daniel Akenine på Microsoft för att du bjöd in ThinkAI till era fina lokaler!
The paper’s main contributions are twofold: to demonstrate how to apply the general European Union’s High-Level Expert Group’s (EU HLEG) guidelines for trustworthy AI in practice for the domain of healthcare; and to investigate the research question of what does “trustworthy AI” mean at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we present the results of a post-hoc self-assessment to evaluate the trustworthiness of an AI system for predicting a multi-regional score conveying the degree of lung compromise in COVID-19 patients, developed and verified by an interdisciplinary team with members from academia, public hospitals, and industry in time of pandemic. The AI system aims to help radiologists to estimate and communicate the severity of damage in a patient’s lung from Chest X-rays. It has been experimentally deployed in the radiology department of the ASST Spedali Civili clinic in Brescia (Italy) since December 2020 during pandemic time. The methodology we have applied for our post-hoc assessment, called Z-Inspection, uses socio-technical scenarios to identify ethical, technical and domain-specific issues in the use of the AI system in the context of the pandemic.
This handbook is published in the context of AI Watch, the European Commission’s knowledge service to monitor the development, uptake and impact of AI for Europe, which was launched in December 2018 as part of the Coordinated Plan on the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Made in Europe.
Since 2014, the European Commission has been ranking the level of digitalization in the member states. Since the start, Sweden has been in second or third place in the Union, but last year and this year, the position has been lost in favor of the Netherlands taking the bronze place. Finland tops this year’s ranking closely followed by Denmark.
