Clinical bioethics, deliberation and digitalization of medicine

Abstract

The development of cognitive technologies and the robotization in health care may intensify the
relational distance between healthcare professionals and patients. Therefore, bioethical reflection
is essential to find the most appropriate means to integrate the benefits of digital technologies into
health care, ensuring ethical care. Thus, bioethics provides healthcare professionals and patients with
discursive resources, aiming to enable the most prudent and reasonable decision-making. The exercise
of communicative competence is crucial in the process of digitalizing medical activities and in the use
of data analysis through artificial intelligence. Deliberative practice and patient-centered medical care
are the ethical directives for the introduction of computational technology in medicine, preserving
humanized and dialogical health care.