Webinar: Bringing AI to Patient Care: Ethical, Legal, Social and Policy Intersections

Time
08:15-13:00 CET (Central European Time) 

Organizers
Ana Nordberg, Santa Slokenberga, Michele Farisco.
AIcare project and Nordic Permed Law Network

How to register
Please register here by 19th October 2026. You will receive the MS Teams link shortly before the event. For questions contact: ana.nordberg@jur.lu.se

Program
08:15 – 08:30 Welcome address (Ana Nordberg, Santa Slokenberga, Michele Farisco)

First panel: Moderator Ana Nordberg (Lund University, Sweden)

08:30 – 08:45 Laura Centeno Casado (University of Murcia, Spain) ‘From Permits to Compliance: Data Users, Health Data Access Bodies, and the EU AI Act in the Secondary Use of Health Data under the EHDS Regulation’.

08:45 – 09:00 Sascha Hurst (Stockholm University, Sweden) ‘Public Order as a Limit on the Secondary Use of Health Data’.

09:00 – 09:15 Neethu Rajam (NLUD, India), Daniel Acquah and Chisanga Mutale (University of Turku, Finland) ‘Reconciling Proprietary Rights with the European Health Data Space in the Age of AI’.

09:15 – 09:30 Sarah de Heer (Lund University, Sweden) ‘From Market Placement to Bedside Use: Safeguards of the Medical Devices Regulation and Artificial Intelligence Act to ensure safe and effective AI-driven patient care’.

Questions and discussion (20 minutes)

09:50 – 10:00 Break

Second Panel: Moderator Michele Farisco (Uppsala University, Sweden)

10:00 – 10:15 Sylvia Martin, Jennifer Gross, and Sofia Ouhbi (Uppsala University, Sweden) ‘Synthetic Empathy, Real concerns: Why GenAI challenges the Ethical Foundations of mental health care’.

10:15 – 10:30 Petra Holmberg, Jann Paul Engler and Sune Hannibal Holm (Copenhagen University, Denmark) ‘Lost in Translation: Meaningful Transparency (or impossible explainability) in Probabilistic Depression Screening’.

10:30 – 11:45 Inês Fernandes Godinho (Lusófona Univ. & Coimbra Univ, Portugal; Portugal Bioethics Council) ‘Transparent AI’

11:45 – 11:00 Tjaša Petročnik (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) ‘Ambient AI scribes in mental healthcare: A poisoned chalice for the therapeutic relationship?’

Questions and discussion (20 minutes)

11:20 – 11:30 Break

Third panel: Moderator Santa Slokenberga (Uppsala University, Sweden)

11:30 – 11:45 Päivi Korpisaari, Juli Mansnérus, Miquel Díaz, Eetu Koljonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) ‘Patient Autonomy in AI-Enabled Healthcare: Rethinking Consent and Continuing Rights’

11:45 – 12:00 Ilaria Colussi, Melanie Goisauf, Erdina Ene, Anto Čartolovni (BBMRI-ERIC) ‘The impact of the EU Digital Omnibus on AI technologies in Healthcare, Health Research and Biobanks: from Regulatory Simplification towards the introduction of Systemic Complexity?’

12:00 – 12:15 Rosa E. Martín-Peña (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) and Kerstin Lenhof (University of Göttingen, Germany) ‘The Uncoded Patient’.

12:15 – 12:30

Mariya Sharkova (University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria) ‘Beyond Fault: Leveraging Nordic Patient Redress Schemes as a Regulatory Blueprint for AI-Related Patient Harm’.

Questions and discussion (20 minutes)

12:50 – 13:00 Closing and next steps 

AICARE - AI and Automated systems and the Right to Health - Revisiting law accounting for the exploitation of users preferences and values” is funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation