The Role of Technology in Healthcare
David Owen, Mihir Patel, Tolly Hoskins and Ella Dulake
An investigation into the quality of the hospital environment, laying out care- options by robotics and/or hospital staff and questioning our trust in artificial intelligence with a playful touch…and remarkably professional model-making skills.
I find the topic of artificial intelligence vs. healthcare professionals. In light of the COVID pandemic, we now see technology commonly used for online consultations. However, the debate around the use of artificial intelligence in diagnostic decisions and administering treatments has been ongoing for the past years. This art creation successfully outlines the many costs and benefits of artificial intelligence (inhuman, cold, systemic vs. precision, stamina, economical, efficiency, unbiased, systemic) and human doctors (biased, exhausted, fallible, inconsistent vs. personal, connection, empathy, listener, trust) in the the healthcare setting. With artificial intelligence, there may be more technical virtuosity, but something significant in medicine is lost through the use of machines; perhaps machines can help with making diagnostic decisions, but we still need doctors to heal.