{"id":19617,"date":"2026-01-14T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dites.unilink.it\/?p=19617"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:40:31","slug":"call-for-abstracts-digital-health-ai-and-the-transformation-of-care-may-15th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dites.unilink.it\/en\/news-en\/call-for-abstracts-digital-health-ai-and-the-transformation-of-care-may-15th-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for abstracts-Digital Health, AI, and the Transformation of Care &#8211; May 15th, 2026\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"19617\" class=\"elementor elementor-19617\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56378453 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"56378453\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ff7f559 exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ff7f559\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><strong>ESA RN16 Health and Medicine &amp; ESA RN24 Science and Technology &#8211; Webinar<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48e2697 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"48e2697\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4029f7f exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4029f7f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Digital Health, AI, and the Transformation of Care - May 15th, 2026 \nESA RN16 Health and Medicine &amp; ESA RN24 Science and Technology - Webinar\n\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f71aa4 exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f71aa4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence and digital technologies, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is profoundly reshaping health, care, and everyday life. From national contact-tracing apps to AI-powered diagnostic systems, wearable devices, and smart platforms, a new ecosystem of socio-technical artefacts has emerged. These tools, once optional, now stand at the heart of healthcare practices and public health governance, blurring the boundaries between care, control, and surveillance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This webinar seeks to critically examine the ambivalences of this transformation. Digital health technologies are promoted as necessary safeguards and innovative solutions, yet they also raise pressing questions about trust, autonomy, transparency, and responsibility. The doctor\u2013patient relationship, in particular, is undergoing profound reconfiguration: citizens increasingly engage with biomedical knowledge, sometimes challenging medical authority, while clinicians and patients alike navigate new forms of visibility, automation, and algorithmic mediation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We invite interdisciplinary contributions that investigate how AI, apps, and wearables are reshaping the regulation of life, health, and risk. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The interplay between digital health technologies and institutional forms of surveillance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI-driven tools and their impact on the doctor\u2013patient dynamic<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sociotechnical imaginaries and the futures imagined by algorithmic systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trust, responsibility, and algorithmic mediation in clinical decision-making<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epistemic tensions between professional knowledge, lay expertise, and machine reasoning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyday negotiations with wearable tech and data collection practices<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participation, consent, and autonomy in tech-mediated care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cultural and institutional responses to AI in healthcare<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resistance, refusal, and alternative approaches to digital health infrastructures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI and public sociology in health contexts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participation in the webinar is free of charge. Proposal will undergo a single-blind peer review process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Important dates:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Submission Deadline: February 28th 2026\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notification of accepted abstract: March 20th 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration deadline for accepted participants: April 10th 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdaLMB4igZZ_A9R0DOVV6nitm9BWjUDqJxZBCMdHsmB8lzm-g\/viewform\"><b>Click here to submit your abstract <\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA RN16 Health and Medicine &amp; ESA RN24 Science and Technology &#8211; Webinar Digital Health, AI, and the Transformation of 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