Research topics

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are seen as an important (technological) innovation within hospital care. In my research, I focus on the social implications of AI algorithms for doctors, nurses and technologists. By zooming in on the process of clinical decision-making in the ICU department of a large academic hospital and observing how ICU doctors deal with interpreting, justifying and ultimately trusting (or not) algorithmic output, light can be shed on changes in daily (clinical) practice under the pressure of AI algorithm implementation. This makes it possible to investigate the added value of the technology on clinical decision making and provides opportunities to increase the effectiveness of the implementation.