Global Health Policy, Health Services and System, and E-health

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasing availability of big data and machine learning techniques, artificial intelligence has reached all aspects of our lives. Healthcare is no exception. A recent literature review¹ revealed that the number of studies on applications of AI in healthcare has increased exponentially in the past ten years. The most common areas of AI applications in healthcare include robot-assisted surgery, disease diagnosis and prediction, and personalised medicine. Not much many AI studies have investigated issues regarding clinical effectiveness, patient safety, and cost-effectiveness². The ability to identify causal relationships rather than statistical correlations is also a challenge that has not been overcome by current AI health studies.

This Special Issue invites AI studies on healthcare, especially thorough examinations of clinical effectiveness, patient safety and cost-effectiveness of AI applications in healthcare. Answers to these three areas will lead to improving the confidence of policymakers and the public in AI-based health services.

Studies to be presented in this Special Issue will provide more diverse evidence of the efficacy of AI applications in healthcare. This Special Issue also aims to fill the knowledge gap in identifying the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of AI. Risk-mitigation strategies to address the potential moral or technical failure of potential AI-based health services will also be discussed in this Special Issue.

References:

1. Bach X Tran, Son Nghiem, Oz Sahin, Giang H Ha, Giang T Vu, Hai Q Pham, Hoa Thi Do, Carl A Latkin, Wilson Tam, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger CM Ho. Modeling Research Topics of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Medicine (GAPRESEARCH): a Latent Dirichlet Allocation application, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2019, DOI:10.2196/15511
2. Maddox TM, Rumsfeld JS, Payne PRO. Questions for Artificial Intelligence in Health Care. JAMA. 2019;321(1):31–32. DOI:10.1001/jama.2018.18932

Dr. Son Nghiem
Dr. Bach Tran
Guest Editors

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