Jonathan Ives

Aug 23, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Rachel Davies |Matthew J Booker |Jonathan Ives |Alyson L. Huntley

What is already known about the topic? •Hospital admissions towards the end-of-life carry significant risk of harm and may not be in keeping with a person’s wishes and goals of care. •There is variation in rates of hospital admissions between geographical areas, services and clinicians. •Interventions addressing system factors have thus far failed to improve rates of admission towards the end-of-life. What this paper adds?

Jun 21, 2024 | jme.bmj.com | Helen Smith |John Downer |Jonathan Ives

Specific guidance to address the use of AI-CDSS is needed because the technology reflects such a significant change in healthcare delivery. As described above, existing clinical professional regulation regulates both professional-patient relations and intraprofessional relations. Where it pertains to the use of technology, guidance assumes passive tools that operate in fixed and predictable ways.

Sep 19, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Helen Smith |Giles Birchley |Jonathan Ives

1 INTRODUCTION Healthcare is a safety critical sector, not least because there are numerous opportunities for healthcare professionals to act to influence patients′ wellbeing via clinical decision-making and subsequent clinical intervention (or nonintervention). Patients can be inherently vulnerable ‘by virtue of their health condition and relative lack of clinical knowledge’.

Aug 22, 2023 | jme.bmj.com | Helen Smith |John Downer |Jonathan Ives

IntroductionIn the UK, national regulators are planning for artificial intelligence (AI) use by developing context-specific regulation underpinned by a core set of principles.1 This generalist approach is far from ready for implementation, however, and will likely be too broad to apply to specialist use-cases. In the interim, therefore, preparations are being made for the specific introduction of AI in healthcare delivery. This has the potential to have a high impact on health services.