Summary
Professional guidance for registered medical practitioners in Malaysia on the ethical use of AI in medical practice. The guideline sets principles for protecting human autonomy, promoting patient safety and public interest, ensuring transparency, explainability, and intelligibility, fostering responsibility and accountability, and protecting privacy and health data. It directs practitioners to use reliable AI tools, seek training, evaluate AI recommendations using clinical judgment, avoid over-reliance, maintain human oversight, disclose conflicts of interest, protect patient data, and report untoward complications from AI use to developers and relevant regulators.
Healthcare Implications
Creates practical clinical governance expectations for AI use by Malaysian physicians. It is directly relevant to AI-supported diagnosis, treatment, clinical care, patient management, telemedicine, chatbots, wearables, and health administration because it keeps responsibility with registered medical practitioners, requires clinical validation and human oversight of AI recommendations, supports patient autonomy and consent, and emphasizes privacy, cybersecurity, bias mitigation, accountability, and reporting of AI-related harms.