What is it about?

AI is transforming healthcare, but it isn’t always reliable. It can be biased, unclear, or make risky mistakes. This work tests how fair and trustworthy medical AI is, showing where it fails and how to make it safer and more transparent for patients.

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Why is it important?

Through the development of SiftIQ, we introduce a critical evaluation framework that helps healthcare professionals assess and reduce bias while improving transparency and reliability in modern AI models. Beyond identifying issues, SiftIQ offers actionable recommendations to strengthen clinical AI systems. By applying risk scoring and targeted evaluation metrics, it empowers physicians to make more informed, safer decisions for their patients. This research is especially important because AI models evolve alongside society, meaning new biases can emerge over time and must be detected and addressed quickly. Ensuring compliance with the SiftIQ framework can prevent misdiagnoses, reduce financial and operational risks, and ultimately build greater trust in healthcare AI. By proactively uncovering weaknesses and guiding improvements, this work advances safer, fairer, and more accountable AI for patient care.

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As the broader world focuses on accelerating AI adoption, our work concentrates on the often-overlooked question of AI’s reliability in healthcare. Instead of assuming these systems are ready for clinical use, we examine what can go wrong, which critical indicators are missing, and whether the recommendations generated by AI truly reflect reliable, historically grounded insights. We also explore how healthcare professionals lean on these models, and where that trust may be misplaced. To address these gaps, we introduce a set of concrete parameters and evaluation criteria designed specifically for assessing the trustworthiness of healthcare AI systems. By shifting the conversation from blind adoption to rigorous validation, this work aims to ensure that AI supports clinicians safely, transparently, and consistently.

Shivam Dhar

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This page is a summary of: SiftIQ: Unraveling the Ethical Dilemma of AI in Healthcare, June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3721201.3725522.
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