Introduction A quality management system (QMS) in healthcare organisations encompasses not only policies, processes and necessary procedures but also the quality, safety and risk management of medical technology. Tactical and operational decision-making levels should be closely interconnected. Previous …

The healthcare sector ranks among the largest consumers of single-use plastics, generating substantial amounts of waste, an issue strikingly captured in Maria Koijck's breast surgery photography. To reduce the environmental impact, biobased and biodegradable polymers are promising alternatives to conventional …

While there is much focus on interventions to foster ethical reflection in the design process of AI, there is less focus on fostering ethical reflection for (end)users. Yet, with the rise of genAI, AI technologies are no longer confined to expert users; non-experts are widely using these technologies. …

Improving teenagers’ mental health is a major challenge in today’s society. Improving this requires a preventive approach with a focus on social-emotional skills. Education serves as an important environment for teenagers to develop these skills. School-based social-emotional learning programs are effective …

Trust in AI is crucial for effective and responsible use in high-stakes sectors like healthcare and finance. One of the most commonly used techniques to mitigate mistrust in AI and even increase trust is the use of Explainable AI models, which enables human understanding of certain decisions made by …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming language access services in healthcare, making interpretation and translation faster and more scalable than ever before. Given that there are approximately 281 million international migrants as of 2024 [1], leveraging AI technology for mitigating language …

Concrete is arguably the most widely used building material in the world today. Current estimates of world cement manufacture are of the order of 1.7*109 tons per year, enough to produce well over 6 km3 of concrete per year or at least 1 m3 per person (Gartner, 2004). It is a composite material made …

Organizations feel an urgency to develop and implement applications based on foundation models: AI-models that have been trained on large-scale general data and can be finetuned to domain-specific tasks. In this process organizations face many questions, regarding model training and deployment, but also …

One aspect of a responsible application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ensuring that the operation and outputs of an AI system are understandable for non-technical users, who need to consider its recommendations in their decision making. The importance of explainable AI (XAI) is widely acknowledged; …

One aspect of a responsible application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ensuring that the operation and outputs of an AI system are understandable for non-technical users, who need to consider its recommendations in their decision making. The importance of explainable AI (XAI) is widely acknowledged; …