10 April 2025

European doctors' spring magazine focuses on artificial intelligence in healthcare

The Standing Committee of European Doctors’ (CPME) newly published Spring magazine opens with a message and editorial from our President, Dr Ole Johan Bakke. He outlines that global co-operation on health is more important than ever, and sets out a vision to advance European doctors’ voice in health policy-making.

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In a feature on the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare our senior policy adviser Sara Roda explains our recommendations for AI to meet the needs of clinical practice. We also report three take-home messages on the use of technology in healthcare from a conference held to celebrate the Royal Dutch Medical Association’s 175th anniversary.

We include an in depth report of the EU Healthy Air Coalition’s high-level conference at the European Parliament, hosted by MEP Javi López, which emphasised the critical role of strengthening disease prevention through clean air action.

We also report on our policy which urges policy-makers to ensure commercial influence does not harm public health, and include a guest article from the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare), on the activities of the 2024 European Awareness Week on Alcohol Related Harm, which displayed a strong consensus among civil society organisations on the necessity of including health and nutritional information on alcohol labels.

Finally, Dr Otmar Kloiber, the Secretary General of the World Medical Association, provides an overview of the update of the Declaration of Helsinki which establishes ethical principles for research involving human beings. He extends his perspective to look aheadd to the revision of the Declaration of Taipei on Ethical Considerations regarding Health Databases and Biobanks at a time when health research is increasingly conducted outside the classical clinical environment.

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