AI is revolutionizing the healthcare sector, from diagnostics and personalized medicine to improving patient outcomes and care delivery. However, this rapid transformation also raises significant ethical, regulatory, and methodological challenges. How can we ensure AI systems are reliable, unbiased, and inclusive? How can AI help bridge healthcare inequities and manage resource bottlenecks?
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center has become the first hospital in the world to integrate an AI chatbot into its triage process, using the clinical-intake tool created by Israeli startup Kahun.
Journals have begun to publish papers in which chatbots such as ChatGPT are shown as co-authors. The following WAME recommendations are intended to inform editors and help them develop policies regarding chatbots for their journals, to help authors understand how use of chatbots might be attributed in their work, and address the need for all journal editors to have access manuscript screening tools. In this rapidly evolving field, we expect these recommendations to evolve as well.
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