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Ambient AI in primary care: an exploratory mixed methods survey of UK general practitioners.

OBJECTIVE: To examine UK general practitioners' (GPs) adoption of ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribes and to assess user-reported error rates, workflow impact and consent practices in primary care. METHODS: We conducted a nationwide online mixed-methods survey of GPs recruited via Doctors.net.uk. Detailed analyses of use, errors and workflow impact focused on current users of ambient AI s...

Jul 1 2026 42386325

Ethics of not knowing who we are talking to in qualitative research.

The increasing use of online methods in qualitative research, alongside the growing availability of artificial intelligence tools, has raised concerns about whether researchers can be certain who they are speaking to. These concerns are often framed in terms of 'imposter' or 'fraudulent' participants, with proposed responses focusing on detection and verification. This paper argues that such frami...

Jul 1 2026 42386380
From Using AI to Relating Through AI: A Postphenomenological and Reflexive Inquiry Into Nursing Education in Developing Country Contexts.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly integrated into nursing education often framed as neutral tools that enhance learning effic...

Jul 1 2026 42070277
Physics-informed gaussian process regression for reproducible and uncertainty-aware CO2 injectivity prediction.

Reliable prediction of CO2 injectivity decline is essential for safe geological carbon storage, yet existing machine learning models often provide det...

Jul 1 2026 42384714
10 recommendations for strengthening citizen science for improved societal and ecological outcomes: A co-produced analysis of challenges and opportunities in the 21st century.

Citizen science plays an increasingly important role in generating scientific knowledge and supporting environmental and social action. However, its p...

Jul 1 2026 42384735
Exploring medical Artificial Intelligence Readiness among Korean medical students: a cross-sectional study.

INTRODUCTION: Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare systems and clinical practice, increasing the need to prepare future phy...

Jun 30 2026 42376791
Artificial Intelligence in medical research and publishing: progress, risks, and future perspectives.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming medical research and scholarly publishing, reshaping how scientific knowledge is produced, evalua...

Jun 30 2026 42379290
Teaching AI ethics in medical schools: a scoping review protocol on the ethical-technical balance in curricular frameworks.

INTRODUCTION: The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in healthcare, ranging from diagnostic tools to clinical decision sup...

Jun 30 2026 42379729
Beyond consent: Reconstructing ethical justification in medical adaptive machine learning systems.

Medical Adaptive Machine Learning Systems (MAMLS) that continuously update their models using clinical data blur the conventional boundary between the...

Jun 30 2026 42368310
Exploring the operational challenges of navigating ethical oversight in the era of artificial intelligence: a qualitative study of health research ethics committees in Tanzania.

BACKGROUND: Health Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) play a pivotal role in safeguarding research participants and ensuring ethical conduct. The rapi...

Jun 30 2026 42374363
Can innovation strengthen resilient, just and sustainable health systems in disaster-prone settings? Insights from HSR2024.

Health systems in disaster-prone settings face recurrent shocks that expose and often deepen existing inequities. Increasingly, innovation, particular...

Jun 29 2026 42367020
Non-destructive ripeness classification of apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) using a physically informed deep learning approach.

Accurate ripeness assessment is essential for optimizing harvest timing, storage management and commercial grading in climacteric fruit supply chains....

Jun 27 2026 42365770
Understanding Public Awareness, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Perceptions About ChatGPT in Saudi Arabia: A Road Map for Digital Health.

BACKGROUND Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) is an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tool that has become increasingly integrated ...

Jun 27 2026 42363582
Equity-by-design for socially assistive robots as digital health tools.

OBJECTIVES: To propose an equity-by-design agenda for socially assistive robots (SARs) as embodied digital health informatics interventions. MATERIALS...

Jun 27 2026 42364080
Protocols for genomic epidemiology and source attribution of enteric bacteria causing diarrhoeal disease across Africa.

INTRODUCTION: Enteric bacterial pathogens are a major cause of diarrhoeal disease in low-income and middle-income countries, with complex transmission...

Jun 25 2026 42350010
Observational multicentre registry to update key interventions and new approaches with artificial intelligence for heart failure (OKINAWA-HF): a retrospective medical record-derived registry study protocol.

INTRODUCTION: The efficacy of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for heart failure has been established in clinical trials, but trial populatio...

Jun 25 2026 42350022
Cloud-based healthcare architecture for securing and monitoring healthcare data.

PURPOSE: A new method known as Lionized Remora optimization based Recurrent Neural Network (LRObRNN) is recommended to enhance the safety of medical i...

Jun 25 2026 41313219
The Concept of Harm in Medical Ethics.

The concept of harm is central to medical ethics. In particular, it is frequently used in ethical deliberation about clinical cases and harm-benefit a...

Jun 24 2026 42340328
Exploring Non-Embodied AI-Based Digital Companions for Older Adults in Aging and Care Contexts: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

BACKGROUND: Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly positioned as a response to social isolation, loneliness, and un...

Jun 24 2026 42340803
Coproduction Without Youth? Closing the Participation Gap in Digital Mental Health Research.

Young people are among the most intensive users of digital and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-enabled mental health tools, yet they remain...

Jun 24 2026 42342243
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