Data Ethics, AI, and Accompaniment: The Dangers of Depersonalization in Catholic Health Care

Health-care systems use AI-driven data analytics to target high-cost patients for early interventions. Many ethicists see these programs as enacting a preferential option for the poor. Ethnographic studies, however, find that their data analytic framework emphasizes efficiency, cost containment, and...

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Main Author: Scherz, Paul J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2022
In: Theological studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 271-292
Further subjects:B value-based care
B Catholic Social Teaching
B Artificial Intelligence
B Bioethics
B Encounter
B Accompaniment
B Population health
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Summary:Health-care systems use AI-driven data analytics to target high-cost patients for early interventions. Many ethicists see these programs as enacting a preferential option for the poor. Ethnographic studies, however, find that their data analytic framework emphasizes efficiency, cost containment, and constant evaluation of patients. Ongoing evaluation and surveillance can undermine other goals of Catholic health care like personal encounter and accompaniment. While targeted care programs can be implemented well, the use of AI in data analytics to serve the poor creates dangers of depersonalization.
ISSN:2169-1304
Contains:Enthalten in: Theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/00405639221096770