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Is it too late to say “Happy New Year”? Well, we’re saying it anyway… a very Happy New Year from the BMJ Future Health team! We have lots of exciting plans for 2025, all aimed at strengthening our Future Health community and providing you with the most value.

This will include everything from monthly webinars with expert panellists discussing the topics that matter most to you, to events offering unique networking opportunities with like-minded individuals. Stay tuned for more.

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• Whether you're a clinician, student, digital health entrepreneur, or senior healthcare leader, this event is designed for you! 
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• If you can't wait until November to hear from our expert speakers, check out our previous webinars.

Webinar: 14 March
Bringing AI to life in the NHS: Insights from successful implementation programmes

This session will provide practical insights into successfully integrating AI in complex healthcare environments.

Have questions related to incorporating AI into your workflows? Share them with the community.

Journal Club: Hot take from our editors

• Balancing act: the complex role of artificial intelligence in addressing burnout
  This paper explores the double-edged impact of AI in healthcare, offering relief from burnout while introducing new challenges. The key takeaway? AI should be a partner, not a replacement. Read the paper here.
• Do primary care quality improvement frameworks consider equity?
  While Quality Improvement (QI) frameworks aim to enhance care, this study found that equity is rarely a direct focus. To prevent unintended gaps in care, this paper highlights that QI frameworks must be reworked to explicitly integrate equity to ensure improvements benefit all patients. Read the paper here.
• Exploring the barriers to participant diversity in early-phase clinical trials.
  Limited trial locations and resource constraints make recruitment of underserved groups difficult. Patient and public representatives emphasise the need for diverse research staff and better education on trial participation. Read the paper here.

What we’ve been reading

• Improving healthcare in the intelligent age requires cultural change and collaboration.
  Many experts believe to see real progress, the healthcare ecosystem must adopt a regenerative, circular healthcare model, where value and resources flow back into the system to support continued growth and improvement.
• Bridging the gap: a guide to making health inequalities a strategic priority for NHS leaders.
  Health outcomes are shaped by more than just access to healthcare; they are also shaped by social factors like housing, income, and education. Clinicians must be aware of these disparities, while NHS leaders should use public health data to guide informed healthcare decision-making.
• 24 Executive Healthcare AI Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2025.
  Healthcare leaders predict that AI will integrate further into clinical processes and patient care. From accelerating research to improving diagnostic accuracy and patient interactions, they predict that AI will shape more efficient healthcare solutions.

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