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The world can learn from Qatar

The world can learn from Qatar

17 Apr 2026 BMJ Future Health
Barry Solaiman, raised in northeast England, moved to Doha in 2017, following the completion of a law PhD from the University of Cambridge, to help develop a new law school.  He went on to become asso …
Predicting wound healing outcomes: a comparative accuracy analysis of AI-driven indices and percent area reduction
Wounds are a significant global health challenge, affecting millions of people each year, with estimated costs of over $126B annually to medical care providers in the USA alone. Chronic wounds are als …
From tobacco to TikTok: what public health litigation history tells us about holding social media accountable
On 25 March 2026 a California jury ordered Meta and Google to pay $3m (£2.26m; €2.59m) in compensatory damages to the family of a child harmed by addictive platform design, with punitive damages recom …
Effect of a clinical decision support system on stroke care quality and outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke (GOLDEN BRIDGE II): cluster randomised clinical trial
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has gained widespread attention, especially in assisting with disease diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and enhancing clinical decision making.1 The clinical …
Machine learning based screening of potential paper mill publications in cancer research: methodological and cross sectional study
Research paper mills are “contract-cheating organisations which provide undeclared services to support research manuscripts and publications.” Research paper mills fabricate and submit manuscripts for …
AI for detecting paper mill papers
An important step towards improving research integrity Paper mills are a systemic threat to research integrity, contaminating the evidence, influencing citations, and potentially affecting clinical de …
From iPatient to Ai-Patient: a responsibility to medical education
Our institution was an early implementer of a major electronic health record (EHR) in 2008. Trainees immediately restructured their workflows around the computer, no longer required to manually transc …
A comprehensive public health approach is needed to study the impact of digital technology on health
Barely a day goes by without media and political concern about the impact of digital technology on health, particularly among young people. The publication of a recent government report, “Understandin …
New risk prediction model for managing COPD in primary care
Tool offers increased precision in estimating exacerbation risk Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is frequently seen in primary c …
Charles Polkey: neurosurgeon and pioneer of the surgical treatment of epilepsy
When the powers that be at King’s College Hospital told neurosurgeon Charles Polkey that it had decided to name a ward after him he was initially reluctant to accept the honour. He only relented after …
MyChart: doctors are left frustrated and patients panic as NHS trusts roll out hospital records app
US tech giant Epic’s hospital records portal has been rolled out by NHS trusts in England. But amid poor integration with the NHS App and low user literacy, users say it causes as many problems as it …
Palantir: Coalition urges NHS organisations to refuse to use controversial tech giant’s software
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir. A coalition of human rights, health and patient o …
“Technostress”—the NHS is overloading doctors with devices
Doctors are carrying more and more hardware. Each device is designed to do a job, but together they are giving clinicians “alarm fatigue”—to the detriment of patient safety. Chris Stokel-Walker report …
Getting published: ask editor Helen Surana

Getting published: ask editor Helen Surana

27 Mar 2026 BMJ Future Health
What was your journey to becoming co-editor-in-chief of BMJ Innovations? I’m a classic portfolio doctor, and have spent a lot of my career at BMJ Group. I’ve worked on BMJ Learning, BMJ Best Practice, …
Meet Dr Tamsin Holland Brown

Meet Dr Tamsin Holland Brown

27 Mar 2026 BMJ Future Health
Three years ago, Modesta Bene, aged 13, failed her school exams in rural Malawi. No one knew it yet, but Modesta was capable. She just couldn't hear. In January 2020, a Malawian doctor diagnosed Modes …
Ask the editor: 60 seconds with Dr Felix Holl
BMJ Group recently launched BMJ Connections Digital Health & AI, an open-access journal that sits alongside BMJ Digital Health & AI.  Both journals publish original research, but the Connections journ …
Mobile-accessible deep learning-based self-assessment tool for measles screening in low-resource settings
What is already known on this topic Measles is highly contagious and poses serious health risks, particularly to young children. Global vaccination coverage declined in 2023, with only 83% receiving t …
Priorities for artificial intelligence education: clinicians’ perspectives
Clinicians are most likely to be motivated to learn about AI framed around its liability implications and determining appropriate confidence in AI algorithms, as these are perceived as important and c …
The impact of skin tone on performance of pulse oximeters used by NHS England COVID Oximetry @home scheme: measurement and diagnostic accuracy study
Arterial haemoglobin oxygen saturation (SaO2) indicates the fraction of oxygenated haemoglobin, relative to total haemoglobin, in arterial blood and provides a useful indicator of hypoxaemia (low bloo …
Déjà vu in healthcare AI: lessons from the world’s pioneer AI clinical decision support system
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have renewed interest in the possibility of computers assisting, or even replacing, doctors in making clinical decisions. However, computerised clinical …