Dr Yves Saint James Aquino, Prof Stacy Carter, A/Prof Chris Degeling, Prof Nehmat Houssami, and collaborators have won the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) Diana Forsythe Award!

The paper (authored by Dr Yves Saint James Aquino, Prof Stacy Carter A/Prof Chris Degeling, Prof Nehmat Houssami and collaborators), Utopia versus dystopia: Professional perspectives on the impact of healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) on clinical roles and skills has won the award!

The award is given annually to a peer-reviewed publication that best exemplifies the spirit and scholarship of Diana Forsythe’s work at the intersection of informatics and social sciences.

The winning paper reports findings from an interview study with a diverse group of professional stakeholders with knowledge and/or experiences in the development, deployment and regulation of healthcare AI. Findings show that experts held competing views about the types of healthcare tasks that can and should be automated, and whether AI-enabled automation would lead to worse or better care.

The interview study was part of the NHMRC-funded project "The algorithm will see you now: ethical, legal and social implications of adopting machine learning systems for diagnosis and screening" (Ideas 1181960, 2020-2023).