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The Role of AI in Nursing Education and Practice: Umbrella Review
EducationNegative state · G 67 / P 75

integration of AI technologies into nursing practice and education

Source article: The Role of AI in Nursing Education and Practice: Umbrella Review

Problem

AI adoption in nursing faces barriers including data privacy risks, algorithmic bias, lack of transparency and accountability, resistance to adoption, and disparities in access to AI technologies and standardized education.

Journal of Medical Internet Research
Gain

AI integration can advance nursing by improving patient care and clinical workflows and transforming how nursing is taught and practiced.

Journal of Medical Internet Research
PROBAST+AI: an updated quality, risk of bias, and applicability assessment tool for prediction models using regression or artificial intelligence methods
HealthContested · G 71 / P 72

quality, risk of bias, and applicability assessment of prediction models using regression or AI in healthcare

Source article: PROBAST+AI: an updated quality, risk of bias, and applicability assessment tool for prediction models using regression or artificial intelligence methods

Problem

The original 2019 PROBAST tool had become outdated given rapid progress in prediction modelling methodology and AI including machine learning.

BMJ
Gain

PROBAST+AI provides a unified tool that lets stakeholders assess quality, bias, and applicability of both regression and AI-based prediction models in healthcare.

BMJ
AI Moderation and Legal Frameworks in Child-Centric Social Media: A Case Study of Roblox
PolicyContested · G 65 / P 69

AI content moderation for child safety on Roblox

Source article: AI Moderation and Legal Frameworks in Child-Centric Social Media: A Case Study of Roblox

Problem

Current automated and human moderation systems on Roblox fail to prevent young users' exposure to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, and predatory behavior.

Laws
Gain

Hybrid AI-human moderation can improve efficient filtering of user-generated content on child-focused metaverse platforms like Roblox.

Laws
Machine learning in point-of-care testing: innovations, challenges, and opportunities
HealthContested · G 71 / P 70

ML-enhanced point-of-care testing deployment and performance in clinical settings

Source article: Machine learning in point-of-care testing: innovations, challenges, and opportunities

Problem

ML-enhanced point-of-care testing faces regulatory hurdles, reliability questions, and privacy concerns that limit widespread clinical adoption.

Nature Communications
Gain

ML integration into point-of-care platforms improves diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, and efficiency and can expand decentralized testing access.

Nature Communications
Integration of smart sensors and IOT in precision agriculture: trends, challenges and future prospectives
BusinessContested · G 68 / P 69

IoT-enabled smart sensors with AI/ML for precision agriculture to improve resource use and yield outcomes

Source article: Integration of smart sensors and IOT in precision agriculture: trends, challenges and future prospectives

Problem

Deploying IoT-enabled smart sensors with AI for precision agriculture is limited by high initial investment costs, complexities in data management, requirements for technical expertise, data security and privacy concerns, and connectivity issues in remote agricultural areas.

Frontiers in Plant Science
Gain

Integration of sensor networks with AI and ML platforms enables real-time monitoring and predictive analytics for disease outbreaks and yield forecasting, allowing targeted irrigation, fertilization and pest management that optimizes resource use and improves sustainable farming efficiency.

Frontiers in Plant Science
Large Language Models in Medicine: Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions
HealthContested · G 72 / P 69

use of large language models in medicine and global healthcare

Source article: Large Language Models in Medicine: Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Problem

Medical LLMs still face numerous challenges in practical applications, including hallucination, limited interpretability, and ethical concerns that hinder widespread use.

International Journal of Medical Sciences
Gain

Large language models represented by GPT-4 have been gradually implemented in clinical practice, medical research, and medical education with transformative potential for healthcare delivery.

International Journal of Medical Sciences
The evolving field of digital mental health: current evidence and implementation issues for smartphone apps, generative artificial intelligence, and virtual reality
HealthContested · G 71 / P 71

use of smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative AI/large language models to augment mental health care

Source article: The evolving field of digital mental health: current evidence and implementation issues for smartphone apps, generative artificial intelligence, and virtual reality

Problem

Digital mental health tools are hampered by engagement challenges, industry setbacks, methodological critiques, and gaps in evidence and scaling that limit real-world applicability.

World Psychiatry
Gain

Smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative AI including large language models show utility across well-being and clinical conditions and can positively impact mental health care when deployed as tools to augment and extend care.

World Psychiatry
A framework to assess clinical safety and hallucination rates of LLMs for medical text summarisation
HealthContested · G 74 / P 71

LLM-based clinical note generation and summarisation and its impact on clinical documentation safety

Source article: A framework to assess clinical safety and hallucination rates of LLMs for medical text summarisation

Problem

LLM summarisation of consultations showed a 1.47% hallucination rate and 3.45% omission rate, creating fidelity gaps that could compromise patient safety.

npj Digital Medicine
Gain

Refining prompts and workflows within the proposed framework reduced major errors below previously reported human note-taking rates, supporting safer clinical documentation.

npj Digital Medicine
Applications of AI-Based Models for Online Fraud Detection and Analysis
CrimeContested · G 67 / P 69

AI and NLP models for detecting online fraud from text data

Source article: Applications of AI-Based Models for Online Fraud Detection and Analysis

Problem

Fraud-detection models trained for specific scam types often fail to generalize to new fraud types and lose effectiveness when trained on outdated data, with inconsistent performance reporting.

Crime Science
Gain

AI and NLP models trained on text data can detect and analyze patterns across multiple categories of online fraud.

Crime Science
AI-Driven Wearable Bioelectronics in Digital Healthcare
HealthContested · G 73 / P 75

AI-driven wearable bioelectronics for continuous health monitoring and preventive care

Source article: AI-Driven Wearable Bioelectronics in Digital Healthcare

Problem

AI-driven wearables face technical, ethical and regulatory hurdles including data interoperability, privacy concerns, algorithmic bias, scalability and security that limit widespread clinical adoption.

Journal of Electronic & Information Systems
Gain

AI-driven wearable bioelectronics enable continuous monitoring of cardiac activity, glucose and biomarkers to support early disease detection, chronic disease management and remote patient monitoring.

Biosensors
When Is a Decision Automated? A Taxonomy for a Fundamental Rights Analysis
PolicyNegative state · G 64 / P 69

regulation of automated decision-making systems that assist human officials in migration, asylum and mobility decisions

Source article: When Is a Decision Automated? A Taxonomy for a Fundamental Rights Analysis

Problem

Current GDPR and AI Act definitions of automated decision-making fail to capture real-life applications where automated systems assist rather than replace human decision-makers in migration and asylum.

German Law Journal
Gain

A proposed taxonomy for automated decision-making could improve identification of fundamental rights at stake in public migration, asylum and mobility decisions.

German Law Journal
Harnessing data science and artificial intelligence to advance implementation research and practice
ScienceContested · G 69 / P 73

AI-enabled support for implementation of evidence-based interventions in routine health care, exemplified in precision oncology

Source article: Harnessing data science and artificial intelligence to advance implementation research and practice

Problem

Application of AI to implementation faces persistent risks of insufficient or biased data, equity and access barriers, and concerns around data security, trust and ethics requiring oversight.

JBI Evidence Implementation
Gain

Large language models, clustering and sentiment analysis demonstrated in a precision oncology project and integrated in ImpleMATE platform enable continuous knowledge extraction and decision support to improve implementation of evidence-based interventions in routine health care.

JBI Evidence Implementation
Optimizing Treatment Strategies in the Bipolar Disorder Spectrum With Classical AI Approaches: Systematic Review of Performance, Bias, and Clinical Applicability
HealthContested · G 74 / P 72

classical AI-supported treatment optimization in bipolar disorder spectrum

Source article: Optimizing Treatment Strategies in the Bipolar Disorder Spectrum With Classical AI Approaches: Systematic Review of Performance, Bias, and Clinical Applicability

Problem

Most classical AI models for bipolar disorder treatment optimization had high risk of bias and lack of external validation, and remain exploratory rather than ready for clinical use.

JMIR Mental Health
Gain

Systematic review of 35 studies found classical AI models for bipolar disorder achieved pooled AUC 0.80 for long-term maintenance response and 85%-97% accuracy for safety and dose optimization.

JMIR Mental Health
Artificial Intelligence Adoption in SMEs: Survey Based on TOE–DOI Framework, Primary Methodology and Challenges
PolicyContested · G 69 / P 72

AI adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises

Source article: Artificial Intelligence Adoption in SMEs: Survey Based on TOE–DOI Framework, Primary Methodology and Challenges

Problem

Small and medium-sized enterprises continue to face significant challenges in effective AI adoption, with ten critical barriers across technology, organization, and environment including data access, skill shortages, cultural resistance, infrastructure limitations, and weak governance.

Applied Sciences
Gain

A structured six-phase roadmap methodology guides SMEs through AI adoption by pairing each barrier with actionable, context-sensitive solutions and incorporating responsible AI governance and open-weight LLMs.

Applied Sciences
Evaluating Trustworthiness in AI: Risks, Metrics, and Applications Across Industries
PolicyNegative state · G 70 / P 75

use of trustworthiness frameworks and metrics to evaluate and govern AI systems across lifecycle stages

Source article: Evaluating Trustworthiness in AI: Risks, Metrics, and Applications Across Industries

Problem

AI systems face major risks across lifecycle stages including reliability failures and bias, and optimizing trustworthiness forces trade-offs such as fairness versus efficiency or privacy versus transparency.

Electronics
Gain

Systematic trustworthiness frameworks and metrics can guide building resilient, ethical and transparent AI systems and have been applied in case studies across healthcare, financial services and autonomous systems.

Electronics