Robotic Systems in Operating Theaters: New Forms of Team–Machine Interaction inHealth Care

On Challenges for Health Information Systems on Adequately Considering Hybrid Action of Humans and Machines

verfasst von

Jochen Steil, Dominique Finas, Susanne Beck, Arne Manzeschke, Reinhold Haux

Abstract

Background Health information systems have developed rapidly and considerably during the last decades, taking advantage of many new technologies. Robots used in operating theaters represent an exceptional example of this trend. Yet, the more these systems are designed to act autonomously and intelligently, the more complex and ethical questions arise about serious implications of how future hybrid clinical team-machine interactions ought to be envisioned, in situations where actions and their decision-making are continuously shared between humans and machines. Objectives To discuss the many different viewpoints-from surgery, robotics, medical informatics, law, and ethics-that the challenges of novel team-machine interactions raise, together with potential consequences for health information systems, in particular on how to adequately consider what hybrid actions can be specified, and in which sense these do imply a sharing of autonomous decisions between (teams of) humans and machines, with robotic systems in operating theaters as an example. Results Team-machine interaction and hybrid action of humans and intelligent machines, as is now becoming feasible, will lead to fundamental changes in a wide range of applications, not only in the context of robotic systems in surgical operating theaters. Collaboration of surgical teams in operating theaters as well as the roles, competencies, and responsibilities of humans (health care professionals) and machines (robotic systems) need to be reconsidered. Hospital information systems will in future not only have humans as users, but also provide the ground for actions of intelligent machines. Conclusions The expected significant changes in the relationship of humans and machines can only be appropriately analyzed and considered by inter- and multidisciplinary collaboration. Fundamentally new approaches are needed to construct the reasonable concepts surrounding hybrid action that will take into account the ascription of responsibility to the radically different types of human versus nonhuman intelligent agents involved.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Kriminalwissenschaftliches Institut (KI)

Externe Organisation(en)

Technische Universität Braunschweig
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH)
Evangelische Hochschule Nürnberg

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Methods of information in medicine

Band

58

Seiten

E14-E25

Anzahl der Seiten

12

ISSN

0026-1270

Publikationsdatum

06.2019

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Gesundheitsinformatik, Erweiterte und spezialisierte Pflege, Gesundheits-Informationsmanagement

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 3 – Gute Gesundheit und Wohlergehen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1692465 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.15488/10414 (Zugang: Offen)
https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0039-1692465 (Zugang: Offen)