Healthcare decision making should be democratised

Decision-Making Should Be More Like Programming

Justify is an interactive “end-user development environment” for deliberation. Justify organizes discussions in a hierarchy of points, each expressing a single idea. Points have a rich ontology of types, such as pro or con, mathematical, or aesthetic arguments. “Programs” in this environment use inference rules to provide assessments that summarize groups of points. Interactive browsing modes s...

Should the decision-making process of reimbursing medicines be improved?

Autonomous Vehicle Decision-Making: Should We Be Bio-inspired?

On our crowded roads, drivers must compete for space but cooperate to avoid occupying the same space at the same time. Decision-making is strategic and requires mutual understanding of other’s choices. Fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) will need risk management software to make these types strategic decisions without human arbitration. Accidents will occur, and what constitutes rational and ‘safe...

Making Ethical Decisions. A six-step process should guide ethical decision making in healthcare.

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...