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medicine
vr.tr.medicine · thing-q11190
Let an agent treat medicine as a regulated discipline and practice, give only general information, and always direct individual health decisions to qualified professionals.
Thing Registry Information and virtual systems INF.KNW
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Practice Who practises and how.
Practitioners
Licensing.
Licensing
Who may practise.
- Who may practise this kind of medicine here, and how is a licence checked? provenance
- Which regulator handles complaints? provenance
Settings
Care levels.
Care setting
Where care is provided.
- At which level of care is this handled? definition
- How does a patient access it? action
Evidence What is known.
Guidelines
Clinical guidelines.
Guideline source
The guideline and its date.
- Which clinical guideline covers this, from which body and date? provenance
- How strong is the evidence behind it? measurement
Research
Trials and studies.
Research status
The state of research.
- What do trials show, and how large and recent are they? measurement
- Is the question still open? boundary
Patient rights Consent and confidentiality.
Consent
Informed consent.
Consent
Consent requirements.
- What must a patient be told before consenting? definition
- Who can consent for someone without capacity? boundary
Confidentiality
Health data.
Confidentiality
Rules on health data.
- Who may see this health information? boundary
- When may confidentiality be broken? boundary
Agent limits What an agent may do.
General information
What can be said.
Information scope
The scope of safe information.
- Is this a general question or a request for individual advice? boundary
- Which reliable source should be cited? provenance
Referral
When to send to a professional.
Referral rule
When and where to refer.
- Which symptoms need urgent care now? action
- Where should the person go for help? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- schizophrenic patient, psychiatric nursing, veterinary clinic, couples therapy, marital therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, preventive nutrition, sleep disorder specialist, dental tool, laser medicine, tattoo laser, Fraxel
What it is Filled
The science and practice of diagnosing, treating and preventing disease and injury and promoting health, carried out by regulated professionals.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent treat medicine as a regulated discipline and practice, give only general information, and always direct individual health decisions to qualified professionals.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A regulated profession: practice requires a licence
- Evidence-based, with guidelines graded by evidence
- Specialties organised by organ, age, method or setting
- Duties of confidentiality and consent
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present general information as a diagnosis or treatment for a person's specific case.
- Recommend stopping, starting or changing a prescribed medicine.
- Disclose a patient's health information without consent or legal basis.
- Present itself as a licensed clinician.
Only with a human decision
- Any diagnosis, prescription or treatment decision.
- Sharing a patient's records with another party.
May
- Give general health information from authoritative, current sources, and say that it is general.
- Direct people with urgent symptoms to emergency services.
- Help a person prepare questions for their clinician.
Moral aspects Filled
- Health decisions affect life and death, and patients must give informed consent.
- Access to care is unequal, and unreliable advice falls hardest on those who lack it.
Who is affected
- Patients
- Clinicians
- Carers and families
Owners Filled
Steward
Regulated health professionals in practice; medical regulators license them.
Master systems
- Medical professional registers
- Patient health records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q843601 - registry parent class
related
- disease - diseases are separate entries
- physician and other clinicians - regulated occupations
- medicine as drug - medicinal products are separate entries
- medicine as a drug - a homonym
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.medicine
- Wikidata: Q11190 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190)
- medical licence number: jurisdiction-specific identifies a licensed practitioner
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Licensed practitioners and accredited facilities
- Clinical guidelines and evidence-based sources
- Veterinary medicine is a parallel field for animals
- Hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, laboratories and practitioners; the discipline itself has no appearance.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- practise it, only with qualification and licence
- research it, under clinical trial rules
- regulate it, through licensing and medicines agencies
- provide general health information, which is different from medical advice
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- General information mistaken for individual advice
- Out-of-date or low-quality sources
- Breaches of confidentiality
- Unlicensed practice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Medical practice acts and professional regulators
- Medicines and medical device regulation
- Declaration of Helsinki and clinical trial regulations
- Patient rights and confidentiality law
Context of use required Filled
- Keeping people healthy, curing and managing illness, and relieving suffering.
- specialties: internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics, psychiatry and others
- primary, secondary and tertiary care
- preventive medicine and public health
- veterinary medicine
- complementary practices, which differ in evidence and regulation
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q11190: medicine - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Medicine - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should specialties be separate entries?
- How should agents mark the boundary between information and advice?
- How should evidence grades be represented?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q11190/spec.json