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Integrating registered counselling services within the South African public health services: Exploring the perspective & experiences of registered counsellors and healthcare providers
This exploratory qualitative study examines the perspectives and experiences of registered counsellors and the healthcare providers who work with them, highlighting the challenges of integrating registered counsellors into the existing healthcare system. Keywords: Registered counsellors, South Afri…
Category: Professional Ethics
Shaping the Future of AI in Healthcare Through Ethics and Governance
This article explores ethical and governance challenges of artificial intelligence in healthcare, emphasizing transparency, accountability, equity, privacy, safety, and international regulatory frameworks to ensure responsible and trustworthy AI implementation. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI…
Category: Professional Ethics
Research integrity and data ethics in AI-driven integrated healthcare
This review examines the use of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare with a focus of research integrity and data ethics, highlighting the benefits whilst drawing attention to potentials biases in algorithms.
Keywords: algorithmic bias, biomedical ethics, data ethics, research integrity
Category: Professional Ethics
A Systematic Review on Mental Health Chatbots: Trends, Design Principles, Evaluation Methods, and Future Research Agenda
This systematic review examines research on mental health chatbots, highlighting their growing use, CBT focus, effectiveness, and challenges involving personalization, cultural adaptation, privacy, ethics, and support for severe mental health conditions. Keywords: Digital mental health, Mental Heal…
Category: Professional Ethics
Ethical and Equity Dimensions in Telerehabilitation for Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
A rapid review exploring ethical and equity issues in telerehabilitation, including access, privacy, and digital literacy, with recommendations to support fair, effective, and patient-centered allied health care. Keywords: digital health; e-health; equity; ethics; occupational therapy; physiotherap…
Category: Professional Ethics
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework
This article critiques by-design AI ethics, highlighting its limitations in addressing structural issues, and proposes a multi-level framework to better analyze and manage socio-ethical impacts of artificial intelligence systems. Keywords: AI ethics, structural issues, specific artifact-level, self…
Category: Professional Ethics
A pilot study of the potential role of ChatGPT instated-calorie diet planning
This study evaluates ChatGPT’s role in calorie-based diet planning, highlighting ethical concerns, professional oversight, and the need for further research into reliability and safe application. Keywords: Artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, nutrition, diet, calorie, ethics, reliability, profession…
Category: Professional Ethics
Artificial Intelligence in Optometry: Potential Benefits and Key Challenges
A narrative review exploring AI’s role in optometry, covering diagnostic tools, tele-optometry, personalised care, and challenges such as ethics, cost, regulation, and practitioner resistance. Keywords: Artificial intelligence, automated screening, tele-optometry, eye care services, patient auton…
Category: Professional Ethics
Palliative sedation at the end of life: Practical and ethical considerations
Discussion of palliative sedation principles and ethical considerations in end-of-life care.
Keywords: Palliative, end-of-life care, sedation, ethics, consent
Category: Professional Ethics
Applying the principle of justice in digital health
This article examines the application of ethical principles in digital healthcare, focusing on justice as care increasingly shifts from diagnosis to treatment through digital technologies.
Keywords: Ethics, Digital health, biomedical ethics, justice
Category: Professional Ethics