Introduction

Digital Health is highly in-demand in the health care system worldwide. Despite the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the rapid adaptation process, there are still questions and ethical issues that should be considered such as data protection law. The European Commission's High-level Group on Ethics and AI are working together to create guidance and law in utilising the digital health in the health care system. 

Speakers at the World Health Summit

The speakers of the panel discussion at the World Health Summit event held in Berlin Germany last October 2019 elaborate on the key functions of AI in the healthcare system. 

• Strengthening the health care system due to precise detection of diseases, fewer errors and time efficiency
• Promoting better health of citizens because AI can disseminate the latest information in real-time. 
• Contributing to a sustainable health economy   

AI can detect a large amount of data that are too complex for a human to detect, create hypotheses through clinical and domain knowledge and allows timely intervention using precise data so health care providers can deliver efficient and high-quality care. Digital Health provides the latest health discoveries all over the world, early detection of diseases and risk factors, configures personalize and anticipate citizen’s specific needs, empower health professionals and citizens and delivering better health care. 

Despite the benefits of AI, speakers discussed some key challenges such as transparency and accountability, data protection and security, safety and liability, ethics and governance and expertise and digital skills that lead to building the high-level group on Artificial Intelligence which implements the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI.

Relevance in the Nursing Profession

Digital Health aims to increase nurses’ efficiency. Modern technology helps nurses with continue monitoring of patients status, easy access on patient’s health history, provides continuity of care from primary to the secondary health care system, communicates directly with other specialists, improves communications between healthcare provider, patients and families and lowers the risk of error in drug dosage.

Nurses must be familiar and seek additional training using technology in the health care system to provide systematic and efficient care to the patients without losing too much human contact.