Medical ethics articles within Nature Communications

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  11 March 2024 | Open Access

  Systematic review and meta-analysis for a Global Patient co-Owned Cloud (GPOC)

  Use of cloud-based personal health records are increasing globally. Here, authors introduce the Global Patient co-Owned Cloud (GPOC) concept. The systematic review and meta-analysis examine factors like data security, efficiency, privacy, and cost. It aims to establish a scientific basis for a GPOC, which may disseminate global artificial intelligence for healthcare.

  • Niklas Lidströmer
  • , Joe Davids
  •  & Eric Herlenius

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  14 December 2021 | Open Access

  A machine and human reader study on AI diagnosis model safety under attacks of adversarial images

  While active efforts are advancing medical AI model development and clinical translation, safety issues of medical AI models have emerged. Here, the authors investigate the effects on an AI model and on human experts of potential fake/adversarial images for breast cancer diagnosis.

  • Qianwei Zhou
  • , Margarita Zuley
  •  & Shandong Wu

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  20 September 2019 | Open Access

  Open data on industry payments to healthcare providers reveal potential hidden costs to the public

  Industry payments to healthcare providers for non-research costs are common in the US. Linking Medicare and Open Payments data, the authors find that providers receiving more industry payments tend to bill higher drug and medical costs, and this association is stronger in more conservative states.

  • Jorge Mejia
  • , Amanda Mejia
  •  & Franco Pestilli