A wonderful writing month at the beautiful Fondation Brocher has come to an end. I feel so lucky to have shared this space with kind&inspiring researchers and enjoyed all our dinners, hikes, bikerides, workshops and Geneva trips! Julia Rijssenbeek Gaby Bortz 💚 Laura Sheard &the rest

The EU #AI Act will have major implications for healthcare, making it essential to understand what it means for the sector. A new fact sheet lists some of the protections the Act will bring to health #AI , as well as gaps that still remain. Read it here: haiweb.org/publication/un…

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What does #HealthyAgeing mean in a #digital world? What is the balance between digital support & digital surveillance? Read more on this topic in bleepDigital's latest article exploring the impact of #EmergingTech on patient care 🩺! #AI bleepdigital.org/post/healthy-d…

Happy I got the chance to visit Université Neuchâtel this week and share my research (and some crêpes) with the lovely health law scholars from Institut de droit de la santé - UniNE! Astrid Pilottin Melanie Levy Anna Galmiche & others

Violation of article 8 (right to private life) also can include right to health, a particularly powerful right in climate litigation strategies as Hannah van Kolfschooten and Aminta Ossom and I show in our forthcoming paper...

A very good morning from the ECHR CEDH in Strasbourg, where I’ll be live-tweeting today’s hearing announcing the ECtHR’s first three climate rulings. Excitement is running high, Greta Thunberg is here and the hearing is going to be packed. Stay tuned! 1/x

1/3🚨The final negotiations on the European Health Data Space #EHDS are happening later this week.

✊🏾We are urging MEPs to insist - as a bare minimum - on the right to opt-out for everyone in the EU when sharing their personal medical records with third parties.

Here's why...🧵

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN! Join us at the 2024 Conference on Reproductive Rights: Legal Developments & Challenges, in Amsterdam on May 15-16! Engage with experts Mary Ziegler, Jennifer Merchant, Amrita Pande, Guido de Wert, Heidi Mertes & Michele Goodwin
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LEAK: Given the massive public attention to the #AIAct , I've taken the rather unprecedented decision to publish the final text. The agreed text is on the right-hand side for those unfamiliar with four-column documents. Enjoy the reading! Some context: 1/6
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Hannah van Kolfschooten sprak vandaag op het Jubileumcongres 25 jaar Regionale Toetsingscommissie Euthanasie in de Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam over AI in de Nederlandse euthanasiepraktijk.

Hannah van Kolfschooten warns of the possibility of discrimination programmed into the algorithms. “The question is, how can we live with this technology? It’s not about being pro or against AI; AI is there, and it needs to be regulated in a way that lets us reap the benefits.”👉

Fascinating session today by Law Centre for Health and Life & Bureau Clara Wichmann with Prof. Michele Goodwin, Lilianne Ploumen, Dr. Bahar Goodarzi. Discussions delved into coloniality's impact on women's health, reproductive justice, and autonomy—crucial for paths to equality.

#MustRead | Hannah van Kolfschooten, a specialist in European health law and the regulation of AI in healthcare, explains the consequences of unregulated #AI on access to and quality of care and offers her analysis of the current version of the #EUAIAct .
👉 ghadvocates.eu/main-limitatio…

Little AI tour around Switzerland: yesterday the workshop on explainable AI in medicines in Lugano SUPSI, today the #AIPolicySummit in Zurich ETH Zürich. Interesting insights in policy challenges & solutions and pretty views! Janneke_vo Health Action International

Cancer survivors face discrimination long after being cured. During my research stay Università di Verona, we wrote about the 'EU cancer survivors' right to be forgotten' or the 'oncological right to be forgotten'. See👉 Bill of Health Petrie-Flom Center: blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2023/09/28/a-e… Mirko Faccioli

Check out our paper on the Council of Europe's forthcoming #AI #Convention in healthpolicy! Available open access 🔓: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. Great collaboration with Carmel Shachar and good memory of my research stay at Harvard Law School & Petrie-Flom Center.

Last week, the AI team was in Brussels, where Janneke_vo and Hannah van Kolfschooten briefed journalists on the risks of #AI in #healthcare , focusing in particular on AI in elderly care.
📽️Hear more from our experts directly: haiweb.org/when-the-ai-te…