{"title":"The Illusion of Control: AI Chatbot Dependency and the Threat to Clinical Autonomy.","authors":"Roa'a Aljuraid","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>AI chatbots have introduced a new dimension to how we provide healthcare and support healthcare clinicians. However, despite the benefits of chatbots, their adoption raises ethical concerns related to the effects on users. This study discusses the ethical implications of psychological dependency on autonomy and decision-making in the context of healthcare delivery. Ten studies were analysed, revealing a cascading hierarchy involving the interconnected risks of threats to autonomy, disruption of critical thinking due to over-reliance, and psychological dependency, as well as issues of bias and misinformation in chatbot outputs, limitations in trust and reliability, and a mixed impact on clinicians' well-being. These findings underscore the importance of adopting a balanced approach to integrating AI chatbots into clinical practice, with a strong emphasis on preserving clinical autonomy to maintain the overall well-being of healthcare practitioners.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"211-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moritz Grob, Julia Liepold, Leonhard Hauptfeld, Vladik Kreinovich, Robert A Jenders, Klaus-Peter Adlassnig
{"title":"Feasibility of Fuzzy Control Aggregation in Clinical Decision Support Using HL7 Arden Syntax.","authors":"Moritz Grob, Julia Liepold, Leonhard Hauptfeld, Vladik Kreinovich, Robert A Jenders, Klaus-Peter Adlassnig","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251491","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fuzzy control systems provide a robust framework for clinical decision support in settings characterized by uncertainty and overlapping variable states. Since Version 2.9, HL7 Arden Syntax has natively supported fuzzy logic constructs, enabling more accurate and expressive medical logic. This feasibility study explores fuzzy aggregation in Arden Syntax for clinical decision support. We implement a rule from FuzzyKBWean, a fuzzy control system supporting ventilator therapy decisions, recommending adjustment of FiO2 based on PaO2 and PaCO2 levels. It is executed using Medexter Healthcare's Arden Syntax compiler, demonstrating the practical utility of native fuzzy logic in Arden Syntax for real-time, interpretable clinical decision support. Observations during implementation led to a suggestion for further refinement of the standard regarding stricter data type enforcement in fuzzy operations, enhancing the robustness of Arden-Syntax-based systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"37-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Ernst, Yvonne Prinzellner, Nina Dalkner, Sebastian Egger-Lampl, Eva Turk
{"title":"Virtual Resilience, Real Consensus: Methodological Framework for a VR-Based Resilience Intervention Using a Modified Delphi Approach.","authors":"Martin Ernst, Yvonne Prinzellner, Nina Dalkner, Sebastian Egger-Lampl, Eva Turk","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251539","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This concept paper outlines the methodological design and rationale behind a modified Delphi study conducted within the Horizon 2020 project XR2esilience, which aims to develop a virtual reality (VR)-based resilience training for nurses. The paper focuses on the consensus-oriented Delphi approach to support the early-phase co-development of digital health interventions. Experts from nursing, psychology, education, and VR development participated in a multi-round process to prioritize content areas, implementation strategies, and contextual considerations. The Delphi method was adapted to the needs of interdisciplinary collaboration and stakeholder integration in digital intervention design. As a concept paper, it outlines methodological foundations and consensus processes, offering guidance for similar initiatives seeking to combine technological innovation with participatory, consensus-driven development in healthcare.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"257-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a Machine Learning Model for Screening Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure Patients Using Sleep Sensor Data.","authors":"Mathushan Gunasegarama, Birthe Dinesen, Nikolaj Müller Larsen, Ghazal Ghamari Gilavai, Kristine Røge, Mathias Kirk Østergaard, Mads Rovsing Jochumsen","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251496","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sleep apnea (SA) is a prevalent disorder among individuals with heart failure (HF), often leading to complications. Early identification is essential for timely interventions and better outcomes. This study explores the feasibility of developing a screening tool for SA in patients with HF using data from the Future Patient Telerehabilitation program. A random forest classifier was used to develop a predictive model, achieving a promising receiver operating characteristic area under the curve (ROC-AUC) of 0.85, suggesting that the random forest classifier has the potential as a SA screening tool for HF patients. However, the study lacked key variables, such as oxygen saturation, that are strong predictors for SA assessment according to current literature; this limits the model's generalizability. Despite this, the findings indicate that the ML model shows promise for screening SA in HF patients, highlighting the need for high-quality, standardized data from future clinical trials to enhance its accuracy and clinical utility.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"62-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Rigby, Elisavet Andrikopoulou, Mirela Prgomet, Stephanie Medlock, Zoie Sy Wong, Kathrin Cresswell
{"title":"Validation and Evaluation as Essentials to Ensuring Safe AI Health Applications.","authors":"Michael Rigby, Elisavet Andrikopoulou, Mirela Prgomet, Stephanie Medlock, Zoie Sy Wong, Kathrin Cresswell","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing technology within health informatics, but it is not subject to the rigor of scientific and safety validation required for all other new health techniques. Moreover, some functions of health AI cannot only introduce biases but can then reinforce and spread them by building on them. Thus, while health AI may bring benefit, it can also pose risks for safety and efficiency, as end users cannot rely on rigorous pre-implementation evidence or in-use validation. This review aims to revisit the principles and techniques already developed in health informatics, to build scientific principles for AI evaluation and the production of evidence. The Precautionary Principle provides further justification for such processes, and continuous quality improvement methods can add assurance. Developers should be expected to provide a robust evidence and evaluation trail, and clinicians and patient groups should expect this to be required by policy makers. This needs to be balanced with a need for developing pragmatic and agile evaluation methods in this fast-evolving area, to deepen knowledge and to guard against the risk of hidden perpetuation of errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"52-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Madeleine Blusi, Ingeborg Nilsson, Caroline Fischl, Helena Lindgren
{"title":"Future Domain Experts - Integrating AI Education into Existing Master Programs for Health Professions.","authors":"Madeleine Blusi, Ingeborg Nilsson, Caroline Fischl, Helena Lindgren","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251549","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical and health disciplines are facing a change of their clinical practices with the integration of new transformative technologies including artificial intelligence (AI). There is an interest to elevate knowledge and skills in designing and developing adaptive technology for clients, patients and practices. In this study the possibility to integrate education on human-centered AI in the education on advanced level of nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists was explored. A blueprint of a 3-course AI education on human-centered AI for health and wellbeing was developed and evaluated at two universities. The course contents range from theory to practical exercises with application to clinical practice on AI, responsible AI design and AI technology, with a structured progression between each level. The evaluation showed that the proposed courses could be integrated into the existing master programs to different extent, from full integration in 120-credit programs to limited integration in 60-credit programs. It was concluded that the proposed education is feasible and desirable to integrate, and future work will continue the development.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"299-303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ángel Sánchez-García, David Fernández-Narro, Pablo Ferri, Juan M García-Gómez, Carlos Sáez
{"title":"Towards an Analytical System for Supervising Fairness, Robustness, and Dataset Shifts in Health AI.","authors":"Ángel Sánchez-García, David Fernández-Narro, Pablo Ferri, Juan M García-Gómez, Carlos Sáez","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251537","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ensuring trustworthy use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) requires continuous evaluation of their performance and fairness, given the potential impact on patient safety and individual rights as high-risk AI systems. However, the practical implementation of health AI performance and fairness monitoring dashboards presents several challenges. Confusion-matrix-derived performance and fairness metrics are non-additive and cannot be reliably aggregated or disaggregated across time or population subgroups. Furthermore, acquiring ground-truth labels or sensitive variable information, and controlling dataset shifts-changes in data statistical distributions-may require additional interoperability with the electronic health records. We present the design of ShinAI-Agent, a modular system that enables continuous, interpretable, and privacy-aware monitoring of health AI and CDSS performance and fairness. An exploratory dashboard combines time series navigation for multiple performance and fairness metrics, model calibration and decision cutoff exploration, and dataset shift monitoring. The system adopts a two-layer database. First, a proxy database, mapping AI outcomes and essential case-level data such as the ground-truth and sensitive variables. And second, an OLAP architecture with aggregable primitives, including case-based confusion matrices and binned probability distributions for flexible computation of performance and fairness metrics across time or sensitive subgroups. The ShinAI-Agent approach supports compliance with the ethical and robustness requirements of the EU AI Act, enables advisory for model retraining and promotes the operationalisation of Trustworthy AI.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"247-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan Kambire, Seydou Golo Barro, Pascal Staccini
{"title":"Input System for a GPT Model Simulating Doctor-Patient Interactions During Medical Consultation.","authors":"Jonathan Kambire, Seydou Golo Barro, Pascal Staccini","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251562","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The introduction of the Licence-Master-Doctorate (LMD) system in African higher education has significantly reshaped university organization, particularly in health-related fields, by exacerbating structural challenges such as the shortage of faculty and inadequate infrastructure. In this context, the present work aims to construct a structured dialogical corpus designed for the training of a customized GPT-2 model, with the goal of simulating medical consultations and supporting the training of medical students. The methodology combines the use of reliable medical sources, the controlled generation of dialogues using existing artificial intelligence systems, and role-playing exercises involving medical students, with detailed annotation of clinical, emotional, and behavioral metadata. The final corpus comprises over 36 million tokens for pre-training and more than 8,326 simulated dialogues for fine-tuning, covering the most prevalent pathologies in Burkina Faso. This multilingual and culturally contextualized approach represents a significant departure from dominant Western corpora, laying the groundwork for a medical conversational model adapted to African realities. While the model is still in training, the complete results will be presented at a later stage. Nevertheless, the collected data already constitute a valuable resource for the development of realistic, diverse, and reusable educational simulators across various medical training contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"360-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"V-IDENT: Enhancing Patient Safety Through PPG-Based User Identification.","authors":"Katja Bochtler, Jonas Schropp, Michael Weber","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251521","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biometric authentication based on physiological signals offers promising potential for enhancing security in mobile patient monitoring. 'Intelligent medical devices', which check the identity of a patient before usage to address safety risks from device-patient mix-ups, do not yet exist. In this project, an AI-based identification system that uses vital signs for biometric authentication will be realized in order to enable the identification on the basis of biometric patterns. By integrating this component into a patient monitoring platform, a seamless and reliable method for verifying patient identity before device use is established, supporting safer and more efficient clinical workflows.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"175-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Relevance of Patient Selection Criteria for Hospital at Home Care: Results from an Expert Survey.","authors":"Kerstin Denecke, Octavio Rivera-Romero","doi":"10.3233/SHTI251502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251502","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospital at home (HaH) models involve treating patients at home for conditions that typically require hospitalisation. This paper reports on an expert survey to validate patient selection criteria from the literature. Feedback from 20 experts led to consensus on four criteria: medical condition, clinical suitability, living conditions and social support. No consensus was reached on the criteria demographics, technological readiness and literacy. Five other characteristics were identified. These criteria emphasise the importance of selecting patients on the basis of clinical need, safety, and ability to receive care at home, while taking into account potential inequalities. Future efforts should focus on improving digital readiness, integrating multidisciplinary perspectives, and ensuring equitable access to HaH services.</p>","PeriodicalId":94357,"journal":{"name":"Studies in health technology and informatics","volume":"332 ","pages":"88-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}