Digital health technology-specific risks for medical malpractice liability.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 36261469.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41746-022-00698-3 and PMC identifier 9581762.
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Abstract
Medical professionals are increasingly required to use digital technologies as part of care delivery and this may represent a risk for medical error and subsequent malpractice liability. For example, if there is a medical error, should the error be attributed to the clinician or the artificial intelligence-based clinical decision-making system? In this article, we identify and discuss digital health technology-specific risks for malpractice liability and offer practical advice for the mitigation of malpractice risk.