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Handbook on Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence

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  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2019)2 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the protection of health-related data
  • Recommendation 2185 (2020) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Artificial intelligence in healthcare: medical, legal and ethical challenges ahead
  • Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO), Report on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and its impact on the “Patient-Doctor” Relationship, 2024
  • Brent Mittelstadt, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Report by consultant expert on the impact of artificial intelligence on the doctor-patient relationship
  • Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO), Strategic Action Plan on Human Rights and Technologies in Biomedicine (2020-2025), 2019  
  • Ivana Bartoletti and Raphaële Xenidis, Council of Europe, Study on the impact of artificial intelligence systems, their potential for promoting equality, including gender equality, and the risks they may cause in relation to non-discrimination, 2023
  • World Health Organisation, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, 2021
  • World Health Organisation, Ageism in artificial intelligence for health, 2022
  • World Health Organisation, Regulatory considerations on artificial intelligence for health, 2023
  • World Health Organisation, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, Guidance on large multi-modal models, 2024 
  • UN Environment Programme, Navigating New Horizons, A global foresight report on planetary health and human well-being, 2024
  • Study on Artificial Intelligence in mental healthcare, Mental Health Europe, 2025
  • OECD, AI in Health: Huge Potential, Huge Risks, 2024

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