Professor Michael Kidd AO co-leads research highlighting AI risks and opportunities in primary care

ICFHS Foundation Director Professor Michael Kidd AO has co-authored a  review published in The Lancet Primary Care on the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in primary care. The review looks at how AI tools, from digital scribes to patient-facing apps, are supporting clinicians and patients, and evaluates their effects on safety, effectiveness, equity and environmental sustainability.  The authors comment that, while AI could help ease pressures on overstretched primary care systems, many tools are being used faster than regulation, and evaluation of their safety, can keep up. The authors emphasise the need for robust evaluation, universal design, and strong governance to ensure AI supports safe, high-quality, equitable, and sustainable care.