Using only AI without seeing or checking its output leaves institutions and practitioners at serious legal and reputational risk.
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The healthcare professional is responsible. Using only AI without seeing or checking its output leaves institutions and practitioners at serious legal and reputational risk. AI can be an aid to decision-making, but responsibility must always rest with the clinician.
Maintaining Compassion at the Center of Care
It is also crucial to acknowledge that healthcare is, by nature, a human service. Empathy, communication, and emotional support are as essential as clinical intelligence. Whether delivering a diagnosis, consoling a family, or assisting a patient in understanding their options, these human connections cannot be outsourced to computers. AI can help by sorting data or even writing documents, but it cannot substitute the human touch patients trust and have confidence in.
Responsible AI Integration- Developing Systems that Facilitate Clinical Oversight
Using only AI without seeing or checking its output leaves institutions and practitioners at serious legal and reputational risk.
To enable appropriate adoption of AI, it must be considered a collaborator— one that supplements human capability without supplanting it. For instance, in radiology, AI could identify suspicious regions on an image and allow radiologists to concentrate attention. In emergency rooms, AI triage systems can order high-risk patients first, but the doctor decides what is done. This cooperative approach to model-building secures the advantages of speed and accuracy without sacrificing professional judgement or patient safety.
Careful design of AI systems should take into consideration the necessity for oversight. Interpretability must be an objective— systems should be designed such that their choices can be questioned, understood, and built upon. Clinicians must be properly trained not just in the usage of AI tools but also in how to assess their limitations, validate their outputs, and give feedback that can improve system performance. At the same time, strong regulatory environments must exist to clarify responsibility, maintain ethical
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BioVoiceNews | July-August 2025