Community-Based Consent Model, Patient Rights, and AI Explainability in Medicine

Community-Based Consent Model, Patient Rights, and AI Explainability in Medicine
Open Peer Commentaries
Aorigele Bao, Yi Zeng
The American Journal of Bioethics, 24 February 2025
Excerpt
…Considering the explainability issue in healthcare, we believe that a community-based consent model should be considered to supplement the notification and right to explanation model in healthcare. Here, the community-based consent model refers to the promotion of the protection of patients’ rights to notification and explanation in the field of healthcare through the construction and maintenance of a community with diverse representatives. Specifically, the community-based consent model can be understood as a hybrid representative community composed of patient representatives, patient advocacy groups, disease-specific societies, or local healthcare structures that intervene as a supplementary reference in the process of using artificial intelligence for healthcare practices during the early development and clinical use of artificial intelligence tools for healthcare, ensuring patients’ rights to notice and explanation…