4 priorities to reaffirm patient voice in the coming era of AI healthcare

Healthcare is becoming both increasingly data driven and automated. Drawing on a largescale review of artificial intelligence developments in the field of mental health and wellbeing, Elizabeth Morrow, Teodor Zidaru-Bărbulescu and Rich Stockley, find that opportunities for patients to influence and inform these future technologies are often lacking, which in turn may heighten disillusionment and lack of trust in them. As such, they propose four priorities for new data driven technologies to ensure they are ethical, effective and equitable for diverse patient groups. As the pandemic has sadly made clear, health policymakers and practitioners often make rapid, complex, life and death decisions. It has also demonstrated the pivotal role of technology in aiding such decisions in infection control and vaccine development.