The last years have seen an acceleration in the development and uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) systems by "early adopter" hospitals, caught between the pressures to "perform" and "transform" in a struggling health care system. This transformation has raised concerns among health care providers as their voices and location-specific workflows have often been overlooked, resulting in technologies that fail to integrate meaningfully into routine care and worsen rather than improve care processes. How can positive AI implementation be carried out in health care, aligned with European values? Based on a perspective that spans all stakeholders, we have created EURAID (European Responsible AI Development), a practical, human-centric framework for AI development and implementation based on agreed goals and values. We illustrate this approach through the co-development of a narrow-purpose "in-house" AI system, designed to help bridge the AI implementation gap in real-world clinical settings. This example is then expanded to address the broader challenges associated with complex, multiagent AI systems. By portraying all key stakeholders across the AI development life cycle and highlighting their roles and contributions within the process, real use cases, and methods for achieving iterative consensus, we offer a unique practical approach for safe and fast progress in hospital digital transformation in the AI age.
Background: Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) undergoing transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) experience significant psychological distress, impacting outcomes. While mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are beneficial, access is limited. Internet-delivered MBIs (iMBIs) offer an accessible alternative; yet, qualitative understanding of patient experiences with tailored iMBIs for this specific population is lacking.
Objective: This study aimed to explore the facilitators and barriers of patients with HCC post TACE and participated in tailored iMBIs.
Methods: From November 2020 to December 2022, 11 patients with HCC post TACE who had taken part in tailored iMBIs were purposively recruited from a tertiary hospital in Jilin Province. Data were collected through semistructured interviews lasting 30-60 minutes. The interviews were analyzed using conventional content analysis.
Results: Five main categories emerged from the analysis: (1) mindfulness mindset, including acceptance, calmness, and mood improvement; (2) improvement of physical discomfort, such as better sleep, pain relief, reduced gastrointestinal symptoms, and increased activity levels; (3) resistance to mindfulness practice, including perceived lack of effectiveness, unsuitable conditions, equipment limitations, and difficulty concentrating; (4) support and encouragement, involving social support, supervision, and professional guidance; and (5) accessibility and convenience characterized by restoration of life balance and user-friendly features of the practice. Each category encompassed several subcategories reflecting the diverse experiences of participants.
Conclusions: While iMBIs were generally perceived as convenient and accessible, challenges such as equipment limitations were noted. Future implementation should focus on enhancing supportive factors to improve adherence, minimizing barriers, and refining the design and delivery of iMBI programs.
Trial registration: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry ChiCTR1900027976; https://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.html?proj=46657.
Background: Assistive robotics for helping older people live well and stay independent has, to date, failed to fulfill its promise: there are few assistive robots in everyday use. In part, this failing can be attributed to inadequate or missing co-design activities that would ensure that these technologies and any services that incorporate them are developed with prospective end users, addressing their actual needs and wants, and not merely for them, and based on lazy assumptions about heterogeneous user groups.
Objective: This exercise aimed to address some of these limitations by taking a "phenomenological snapshot" of what it means to be an older person in the current sociotechnological context, and making this snapshot, along with the co-design materials developed, available to the wider assistive robotics community to provide solid foundational evidence for steering the development of assistive robotics in more productive directions.
Methods: Two rounds of co-design workshops have been conducted with older people and their caregivers, based on an innovative methodology that used personas and speculative designs to explore sensitive everyday difficulties faced by participants and highlight some of their general wishes for and concerns about assistive robotics. The data collected during the workshops were analyzed, and key themes were extracted.
Results: Analysis of the workshop data gives access to the lived experience of older people and their caregivers, and their opinions about domestic robotics and assistive technologies more generally. The findings are organized thematically as everyday difficulties, the daily problems faced by older people; ideas for aging better, older people's own suggestions for how their lives could be improved; and living with technology, their preferences and requirements for assistive robots, along with their concerns about what the introduction of robots might mean, both for themselves and for society more widely.
Conclusions: We believe that our findings provide solid foundational evidence for the development of assistive robotics for older people. We are in the process of disseminating these results through various channels to the wider assistive robotics community; ultimately, the success of our activities will be demonstrated only through the development of acceptable, useful, and viable assistive robotics for older people.

