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Reshaping research and development through women’s leadership

Reshaping research and development through women’s leadership

13 Aug 2025 The BMJ
Across the world, women are the foundation of health systems. They serve as caregivers, nurses, frontline responders, and trusted community leaders. In Africa, this reality is even more pronounced. Wo …
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We need a broader perspective on innovations to advance a women and health agenda

We need a broader perspective on innovations to advance a women and health agenda

13 Aug 2025 The BMJ
Although biotech innovations have contributed to improvements in health outcomes, we need more comprehensive health innovation to tackle persistent gender and intersectional equity gaps, argue Karla U …
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The pitfalls of diagnostic self-tests

The pitfalls of diagnostic self-tests

13 Aug 2025 The BMJ
Rapid advances in diagnostic technology, coupled with persuasive advertising, have resulted in a surge of direct-to-consumer self-tests, often sold under the banner of “wellness.” Marketed as tools fo …
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Reporting guidelines for chatbot health advice studies: explanation and elaboration for the Chatbot Assessment Reporting Tool

Reporting guidelines for chatbot health advice studies: explanation and elaboration for the Chatbot Assessment Reporting Tool

13 Aug 2025 The BMJ
Researchers developed a new guideline, CHART, to improve transparency and reproducibility in studies that evaluate how well AI chatbots provide health advice. This tool gives researchers a checklist t …
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Generative artificial intelligence in medicine: a mixed-methods survey of UK general practitioners

Generative artificial intelligence in medicine: a mixed-methods survey of UK general practitioners

13 Aug 2025 BMJ Digital Health & AI
A survey of 1,006 GPs found practitioners anticipate benefits from AI for documentation, gathering patient information, and diagnosis. Eighty percent of those GPs seek more training in AI applications …
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Development and evaluation of an agentic LLM based RAG framework for evidence-based patient education

Development and evaluation of an agentic LLM based RAG framework for evidence-based patient education

13 Aug 2025 BMJ Health and Care Informatics
The researchers' framework in this study suggests a blueprint for developing AI systems to deliver trustworthy medical education to Arabic speakers, with potential for expansion to other languages. Re …
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Q & A with The BMJ Editor: Dr Jocalyn Clark on Women's Health Innovation

Q & A with The BMJ Editor: Dr Jocalyn Clark on Women's Health Innovation

13 Aug 2025
Just days before the Gates Foundation announced a $2.5 billion investment in women’s health innovations, the largest in history, The BMJ published three commentaries exploring different dimensions of …
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What are the ethical issues related to telerehabilitation? A critical interpretive synthesis protocol

What are the ethical issues related to telerehabilitation? A critical interpretive synthesis protocol

09 Jun 2025 BMJ Open
Technology has transformed various facets of life, including medicine, giving rise to innovative forms of care such as telemedicine and telehealth. While telehealth encompasses health information avai …
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Can AI teach medicine?

Can AI teach medicine?

09 Jun 2025 The BMJ
Artificial intelligence is making significant inroads into healthcare, diagnostics, workflows, and even medical education. But can AI truly take on the role of a teacher in medical training? “Can AI d …
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Quantitative evaluation of patients’ digital capability evaluated in an emergency department setting: a cross-sectional study

Quantitative evaluation of patients’ digital capability evaluated in an emergency department setting: a cross-sectional study

09 Jun 2025 BMJ Journals - Emergency Medicine Journal
Increasingly, patients are being asked to use digitalised healthcare platforms: scheduling appointments, Hospital at Home models, accessing lab results and patient-reported outcome data. This represen …
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Challenges and opportunities in virtual and hybrid care

Challenges and opportunities in virtual and hybrid care

09 Jun 2025 NEJM Catalyst
As virtual and hybrid care gain popularity, many healthcare systems face challenges with infrastructure, workflows, and reimbursement. This NEJM  article discusses practical strategies to overcome the …
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Effectiveness of digital cardiac rehab programmes

Effectiveness of digital cardiac rehab programmes

09 Jun 2025 The Lancet Digital Health
This systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by Lancet found that home-based cardiac rehabilitation delivered via mobile health  technologies significantly improves patient outcomes. These digit …
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Comparing AI tools for clinical diagnosis

Comparing AI tools for clinical diagnosis

09 Jun 2025 JAMA Network Open
A recent study in JAMA compared large language models like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to a dedicated AI expert system for diagnostic accuracy using clinical cases. The expert system outperformed the language m …
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The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care

The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care

Journal of Medical Ethics
This study explores the ethical implications of using a “sensitive” virtual assistant (SVA), an AI-driven chatbot designed to support people in vulnerable positions, such as those with disabilities, i …
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Barriers to and facilitators of clinician acceptance and use of artificial intelligence in healthcare settings

Barriers to and facilitators of clinician acceptance and use of artificial intelligence in healthcare settings

BMJ Open
Key factors influencing clinicians adoption of AI included performance expectancy and available support. Additional themes such as clinician hesitancy, legal concerns, and physician involvement – also …
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“I am not a priority”: ethnic minority experiences of navigating mental health support

“I am not a priority”: ethnic minority experiences of navigating mental health support

BMJ Mental Health
Ethnic minorities in England face persistent barriers to mental health care, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study highlights ongoing disparities, including cultural stigma, language barriers, …
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How has healthcare’s approach to telehealth changed in the past 5 years?

How has healthcare’s approach to telehealth changed in the past 5 years?

HealthTech
Post-pandemic, telehealth has become a core part of healthcare, powered by remote monitoring and virtual care. Despite challenges with integration and reimbursement, real-time monitoring  is transform …
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Can smarter procurement drive innovation in smaller countries?

Can smarter procurement drive innovation in smaller countries?

Healthcare IT News
Smaller countries face challenges in healthcare innovation procurement due to limited resources and expertise. To overcome these hurdles, European initiatives like joint procurement aim to foster coll …
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10 Technologies that will vanish from healthcare by 2050

10 Technologies that will vanish from healthcare by 2050

Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
In the next 25 years healthcare technologies, like pagers, fax machines, and paper records, are expected to disappear, replaced by digital automated systems. The Medical Futurist Institute’s Bertalan …
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Rushing technological implementation in healthcare could do more harm than good if we are not careful

Rushing technological implementation in healthcare could do more harm than good if we are not careful

World Economic Forum
Artificial intelligence offers huge potential in healthcare from early disease detection to reducing clinician workload and improving diagnostic accuracy, but rolling it out too quickly can lead to wa …
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