Societal Scale Research Articles

Clinical and diagnostic features of long-COVID patients presenting with neurologic symptoms in Chicago.

Long COVID, a condition characterized by persistent symptoms after COVID-19 infection, is increasingly being recognized worldwide. Neurologic symptoms are frequently reported in survivors of COVID-19, making it crucial to better understand this phenomenon both on a societal scale and for the quality of life of these patients. Between January 1, 2020, and July 31, 2022, Illinois(IL) had a standardized cumulative death rate that ranked it 24th out of the 51 states in the United States (US). However, the US had one of the highest per capita COVID-19 death rates among large, high-income countries. [Bollyky T. et al. 2023] As a result of the increased number of COVID-19 infections, there was a rise in the number of patients experiencing Long COVID. At our neuro-infectious disease clinic in Chicago(IL), we observed an increasing number of patients presenting with cognitive and other neurologic symptoms after contracting COVID-19. Initially, we needed to provide these individuals with a better understanding of their condition and expected outcomes. We were thus motivated to further evaluate this group of patients for any patterns in presentation, neurologic findings, and diagnostic testing that would help us better understand this phenomenon. We aim to contribute to the growing body of research on Long COVID, including its presentation, diagnostic testing results, and outcomes to enlighten the long COVID syndrome. We hypothesize that the neurological symptoms resulting from long COVID persist for over 12 months. We conducted a retrospective analysis of clinical data from 44 patients with long-COVID. Cognitive symptoms were the most common presenting concern. Abnormalities in Montreal Cognitive Assessment, electroencephalogram, serum autoantibody testing, and cerebrospinal fluid were found in minority subsets of our cohort. At 12 months, most patients continue to experience neurologic symptoms, though more than half reported moderate or marked improvement compared to initial presentation. Although most of the patients in this study did not show a consistent occurrence of symptoms suggesting a cohesive underlying etiology, our clinical data demonstrated some features of Long COVID patients in Chicago (IL) that could lead to new research avenues, helping us better understand this syndrome that affects patients worldwide.

The physical environment matters: room effects on online purchase decisions.

People as individual consumers are regularly targeted in sustainability campaigns or communications with the hope of enhancing sustainable behavior at an individual level, with subsequent sustainability transformation at a larger societal scale. However, psychological motivation is complex and campaigns need to be based on an understanding for what individual, and contextual, factors support or hinder sustainable behavioral choices. In a discrete choice experiment, participants made hypothetical online purchases in each of three rooms designed to evoke associations to hedonic, gain, and normative goal frames. Participants were shown a campaign message intended to prime sustainable textile consumption prior to the purchase. For each product (t-shirt or bananas) hedonic (comfort/look), gain (price), and normative (organic/ fairtrade) attributes were varied in an online choice experiment. Preferences for the normative attribute of t-shirts increased in the normative room compared to the room with gain associations. No effect of the rooms with hedonic or gain priming was observed on the choice. The study supports the hypothesis that the physical room can enhance goal frame activation and behavioral choice but concludes that such priming effect is sensitive to specificity of the prime.

Undercommoning Anthrogenesis

Sophie Lewis coined anthrogenesis as “the production of human beings” and, using this unfamiliar term, calls for the radical reimagining of gestational politics, as an alternative to liberal feminism's focus on choice. Revivisng Shulamith Firestone, for feminists like Lewis and Helen Hester this reimagination takes shape within a techno‐utopic communist framework. While enticing, such a framework relies on a modernist understanding of institutions that has been critiqued by decolonial and abolitionist theory and risks undervaluing the fugitive underground work of radical care and mutual aid that already exists today. In this article, two strategies at play in the contemporary Marxist reimagination of anthrogenesis are differentiated: (1) a communist approach focusing primarily on fundamentally restructuring the commons of reproductive care on a grand societal scale and (2) an “undercommons” approach that aims to fugitively abolish public institutions through small‐scale mutual aid and radical care practices that are already constituting otherworlds of reproductive justice through transnational coalitions. Highlighting abortion and birth networks in the Netherlands (the Abortion Network Amsterdam and the Geboortebeweging, a loose collaborative network of midwives) who transnationally and fugitively care for anthrogenesis, the second strategy is proposed as the more promising one for the anthrogenesis of human beings otherwise. The author develops another possible outcome of Firestone's revolutionary thought: not a gestational communism but an anarcho‐abolitionist fugitive undercommoning of anthrogenesis, through the work Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Marquis Bey, and Chiara Bottici.

Recipes for the Future of Seaweed Aquaculture

Climate cuisine is about eating the future you want into being. In this article, I examine how seaweed recipes can be forms of climate fiction through the way that the reader is invited to participate in sustainable foodways. I examine several popularizations of seaweed aquaculture that imagine practices of eating and growing seaweeds. Their formal similarities center on participation: they include the direct address of the reader through the second person voice, and position themselves as instructional models. Bren Smith’s Eat Like a Fish (Smith, Eat like a fish: My adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer, Penguin, 2019) interpellates the reader as eater, invited to cultivate eating habits that, on a societal scale, would produce a more materially sustainable relation with the planet. The vignette “Ghost Bar,” which appears in Holly Jean Buck’s After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (Buck, After geoengineering: Climate tragedy, repair, and restoration, Verso, 2019), sensorily emplaces the reader in a future seaweed farm as a window into the kinds of livelihoods and forms of work that could be part of mitigating global warming. I trace the similarities between Smith's recipes and Buck’s interpellation of a reader, both of which use the second-person mode addressing an unmarked “you,” inviting this “you” to imagine and actualize the future dish or future scenario they sketch. While these texts have their own limitations at the level of the social imagination, such popularizations of seaweed aquaculture model an important way of understanding the intimacies of climate fiction and recipes. Recipes not only popularize the sustainable eating of seaweeds, but actively constitute a form of climate fiction through their intention to actualize more seaweedy futures.

#MeToo Activism as Pragmatic Justice Seeking

As #MeToo activists took their testimonies of sexual harm outside the legal arena to seek justice, the #MeToo movement has commonly been framed as pitting informal justice-seeking against formal law. This article draws on interviews with Swedish #MeToo activists and focuses on their experiences of justice seeking. It asks the key question: what does justice look like for #MeToo participants? I demonstrate how a binary framework, with formal law on one side and informal community justice practices on the other, does not offer an understanding of the justice interests of activists. The interviews convey how acts of justice seeking are plural, spanning both legal and extra-legal terrains, as well as temporally long-lasting and contextually shifting. The justice-seeking emerges as pragmatic because the #MeToo moment is bound up with the promise that, at this rhetorical moment, the act of speaking out will finally be heard on a societal scale.

Development of regional television: Problems and solutions

Relevance. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the implementation of sustainable development of television at the local level depends on the understanding of territorial intelligence, which is not limited to the production of scientific or regulatory information. Purpose. The purpose of the research is to consider the problems of development of regional television, as well as ways of their solution in the modern world. Methodology. The research article utilized three main methodological approaches: empirical, deductive, and structural. Results. The results of the research article highlight the significant role of regional television media in shaping mass culture and affecting individuals and communities in various aspects of life, such as intellectual, emotional, and social spheres. Television elements serve various social functions, impacting cultural development, promoting new tendencies, and stimulating individual imagination on a wide societal scale. Conclusions. The conclusion underscores the importance of local television's evolution in parallel with digital terrestrial television advancements to catch up with past delays and adapt to modern viewing trends. While facing challenges like declining viewership and changing audience preferences, local television's resilience lies in community engagement, innovative content creation, and embracing digital transformations to ensure its continued relevance and impact within the regional media landscape. The development of television, particularly in education and upbringing, emphasizes the need for universal media education to address the strong influence of mass media on shaping values and attitudes. Keywords: information; mass media; Internet; digital TV; channels

A justice oriented examination of teacher education through the lens of deans’ innovations and leadership in schools of education

ABSTRACT Social-justice teacher education literature is widespread, but research highlighting the perspectives and insights from those who lead is far less common. This interview-based case-study of 20 deans from the Schools of Education across the United States addresses this gap and explores insights that pertain to the leadership and implementation of teacher education programs that advance social justice and teacher agency. Using conceptualisations of thin and strong equity, we identify, explain, and discuss three themes which emerged from the data. The first involves addressing barriers and access issues for prospective teacher candidates. The second includes programmatic actions taken by deans in attempts to further social justice goals and the third highlights an understanding that social justice work inevitably includes working to change systems and structures at the societal scale. We explore the extent to which these patterns reflect strong equity and provide ideas for deepening this work through the development and reframing of teacher agency.

How does the male gaze construct our understanding of sexual power — using the example of Chinese film female characters

China's increasing development and the people's giowing reliance on online social networking have led to social phenomena on social media becoming more prominent and. to some extent, deepening. Nowhere is this more evident than in the phenomenon of misogyny and men-pleasing, a gender debate that has been ongoing unresolved for over a century. The subject of this research paper is an in-depth analysis of the male gaze and a critique of the solutions that have been proposed. The research perspective of this paper will be based on the dissection of the male gaze by Foucault and Laura Mulvey, as well as postmodem feminist perspectives, to present and judge the gender issues that exist and are potential. From a theoretical perspective, the male gaze inherently influences plot and characterization in film, and the latter functionally deepens the impression on the masses on a societal scale. On the other hand, from an ideological standpoint, it can be argued that cunent attempts to counteract and diminish the male gaze are overly one-sided and may actually deepen society's ambivalence towards this social issue.

Causal Analysis of Fall Accidents in Hydraulic Engineering Based on Text Mining and Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory and Interpretative Structural Modeling

Hydraulic engineering construction safety has become a major concern in engineering sustainability. Fall accidents, as a common type of accident during the hydraulic engineering construction process, have caused physical and fatal injuries and property losses on an individual and societal scale. With a sizable workforce, complex operational structures and demanding construction conditions, hydraulic engineering projects present more pronounced safety management challenges than other infrastructure initiatives. As a result, the risk of accidents, particularly fall accidents, is heightened in this domain. To prevent fall accidents and minimize losses, this study used the investigation reports of 389 cases of fall accidents as the analyzed corpus, and 16 contributing factors of fall accidents were extracted with the utilization of text mining. Accident feature terms were visualized through word clouds and ring bar graphs. The logical relationship among the influencing factors was quantified based on Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory and Interpretative Structural Modeling (DEMATEL-ISM). The contributing factors and occurrence mechanism of fall accidents in hydraulic engineering were analyzed by establishing a multilevel hierarchical hybrid model. The results showed that the multilevel hierarchical hybrid model was divided into five levels. Thirteen causal chains were obtained. Chaotic security management, weak safety awareness and an inadequate safety system were the most critical factors, while the remaining eleven transitional factors and four surface factors also contributed significantly to the occurrence of accidents. Human and management factors dominated the overall factor transfer pathway. This study proposes countermeasures to the above-mentioned factors and provides a theoretical basis for the sustainable and safe construction of hydraulic engineering.

Future past of tourism: critical reflection’s on the rise of tourism futures

Given the presence of societal scale risks such as pandemics, war, climate change and artificial technology, the future of tourism will operate increasingly in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. As such the present course of tourism research is unsustainable. In this paper, the authors draw upon the evolutionary paradigm in futures studies to identify a series of historical turning points in the development of tourism futures research. These include forecasting tourism demand using quantitative methods; the appointment of the world’s first tourism scenario planner; the establishment of the European Tourism Futures Institute; the creation of academic credibility through the Journal of Tourism Futures; the effect of COVID-19 on tourism research; and finally, the accelerator effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our consciousness and awareness of the future. In conclusion, the authors offer a series of futures turning points identifying the direction of tourism futures, scenario planning and foresight within the realm of tourism research.

Effect of gender sensitivity on attitudes toward marriage and childbirth among university students in South Korea

This research delves into the intricate domain of gender sensitivity, a cognitive process rooted in the awareness of gender equality and the ability to actively endorse and practice it. The study focuses on a cohort of university students on the brink of marriageable and childbearing age, aiming to scrutinize the potential influence of gender sensitivity on their attitudes towards marriage and childbirth. Employing a convenience sampling method, 196 students spanning from first to fourth-year were enlisted as participants. Data were collected through online surveys conducted between April 5 and April 12, 2022. Our findings illuminate that male participants harbor a more affirmative disposition towards both marriage and childbirth compared to their female counterparts. Moreover, a significant positive correlation surfaces between attitudes towards marriage and childbirth. Intriguingly, the study exposes a notable inverse relationship between gender sensitivity and attitudes towards marriage (β = -.49, t = -7.13, p < 0.001) as well as childbirth (β = -.44, t = -6.45, p < 0.001). In light of these revelations, the study underscores the paramount importance of integrating gender sensitivity into strategies aimed at enhancing university students' perspectives on marriage and childbirth. Moreover, it advocates for a policy-oriented approach to ameliorate gender inequality on a societal scale. The study's profound significance lies in its revelation that, in a society lacking in gender sensitivity, the prevalence of marriages and fertility rates may exhibit a negative correlation with gender sensitivity. This underscores the imperative need for sustained governmental efforts to augment gender sensitivity.

Challenges in Achieving 1.5-Degree Lifestyle Mitigation Options—Insights from a Citizen-Participatory Household Experiment in Japan

Recent studies have highlighted the significant role of lifestyle changes in achieving climate change targets. However, implementing substantial changes in people’s lifestyles is challenging due to the varying availability of goods and services and the influence of the surrounding environment. To address this challenge and promote low-carbon and decarbonised lifestyles on a societal scale, a two-week household experiment was conducted in four representative Japanese cities (Kyoto, Yokohama, Kitakyushu, and Kagoshima). The experiment was based on 65 carbon reduction/mitigation options proposed in previous studies. A total of 84 participants participated in the household experiments: 29 in Kyoto, 22 in Yokohama, 12 in Kitakyushu, and 21 in Kagoshima. Due to constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, implementation was monitored through a ‘household experiment diary’. The household experiments examined the status of implementation of each option and assessed the potential for improvement over a short period. Furthermore, the study identified barriers, enabling contexts and proposed support measures for implementing household mitigation actions. This study also provided policy implications for co-creating decarbonised lifestyles.

“Fast lapsing back into barbarism”: Social Evolution, the Myth of Progress and the Gothic Past in Late-Victorian Invasion and Catastrophe Fiction

While neo-barbarian dystopian futures are typically associated with contemporary popular culture, they were not, in fact, uncommon in late-Victorian popular fiction, especially in the politically charged, future-oriented popular fiction subgenres of invasion fiction and catastrophe fiction. Focusing on a representative tale from each subgenre – George Griffith’s Olga Romanoff (1894) and Richard Jefferies’ After London (1885) – this article shows how they made innovative use of the gothic to show the future following a large-scale war or natural disaster as a decline back into an exaggerated version of the barbaric past. Reworking the familiar gothic trope of doomed inheritance, the tales showed nemesis occurring not on an individual or familial level, but on an extensive societal scale in keeping with their sweeping narratives of mass death and its aftermath. In presenting a post-catastrophe relapse to barbarism, the tales were extrapolating from the social evolution theories of Herbert Spencer and Walter Bagehot which, though delineating the forward tendency of western social progress, allowed the fearful corollary that in periods of crisis advanced societies might also regress. While popular fiction’s engagement with theories of biological degeneration has been well researched, engagements with these theories of societal reversion have received less attention. Applying them to invasion and catastrophe fiction elucidates how the tales used their regressive futures to warn hubristic nineteenth-century modernity about its potential comeuppance if it continued to either aggressively militarise or unthinkingly exploit the non-human world, two major negative social tendencies which were the source of considerable contemporary anxiety.

Finnish Teachers’ Views on their Pupils’ Writing Challenges

Abstract Finland is a country that supports public-only education that aims to provide the same basic education for all its residents. In the National Core Curriculum, strong reading and writing skills are considered a foundation for further learning and essential for civil society and democracy. The recent national evaluations done in Finland show the warning trend of weakening writing skills among school-age children, adding that when the individual differences in performance tend to grow bigger, it may promote “inequalization.” This article discusses how Finnish L1 teachers working at all levels of basic and secondary education view their pupils’ challenges in writing. The data consists of survey responses from a relatively large group of Finnish L1 teachers (N = 376). As part of the survey conducted in 2019, the teachers were asked to define what challenges the present day has brought to their classrooms in terms of writing learning. The survey data shows that the teachers mention challenges in language competencies, working skills, social participation, and developing voice and meaning in writing. These findings seem to reflect an emphasis on individual cognitive skills rather than seeing writing as social interaction and integration. The teachers commonly blame a lack of reading and increased use of social media for causing their pupils’ writing challenges, which also reflects the importance of sociocultural identification in all communication. This topic would need more detailed research in terms of quantitative analysis, in-depth case studies, and interventions to develop accurate writing pedagogy. Still, it is possible to note that the pedagogical thinking of writing may not yet be able to capture the ever-increasing importance of participation in textual communities, be it of a classroom group or societal scale.

A Mother’s Intentional Use of Serve and Return Interactions: A Start to Child Participation, Decolonized Parenting, and Child-led Play

Amidst the large corpus of international research on the relevance and deficiency of quality adult-child interactions in the first years of a child’s life there seems to be limited knowledge on how adults can build their capacity to offer high-quality interactions in homes and early years settings. Recent neuroscientific evidence presents the “Serve and Return” (SR) model to promote the “practice” of successful interactions that help build a child’s brain on a larger societal scale. To this, the SR model takes center stage in the presented work to showcase the aftermath of its intentional use by one mother to promote quality interactions with her infant in Malta. This paper aims to explore: (1) the attitudes, knowledge, and understanding the mother adopts to initiate and develop successful SR style of interactions with her daughter (age: 10 to 24 months); and (2) the type of interactions that were facilitated through the mother’s intentional use of the SR model over time. The work is framed within Bowlby’s attachment theory, postcolonial theory, and a child’s rights lens. It draws on data from a fourteen-month study: the mother’s reflective journal, transcriptions of recordings interactions, and monthly video-recorded analytic discussions between the researcher and the mother. Findings locate a transformation point that led the mother to explore a more sensitive and responsive attitude, strengthen her understanding, and overcome challenges faced with SR interactions. A key result is how a bi-directional ‘loop’ developed and generated affordances of child-led playful interactions that maximized learning, promoted child participation, and decolonized parenting. Implications are discussed to address the need for counseling, support, and training for parents and educators and activism on quality interactions. Keywords: Serve and return, adult-child interactions, child-led play, decolonized parenting, child participation DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-12-05 Publication date: April 30 th 2023

Smart Artificial Intelligence techniques using embedded band for diagnosis and combating COVID-19

Recently, COVID-19 virus spread to create a major impact in human body worldwide. The Corona virus, initiated by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was known in China, December 2019 and affirmed a worldwide epidemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. The core aim of this research is to detect the spreading of COVID-19 virus and solve the problems in human lungs infection quickly. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique is a possibly controlling device in the battle against the corona virus epidemic. Recently, AI with computational techniques are utilized for COVID-19 virus with the building blocks of Deep Learning method using Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is used to classify and identify the lung images affected region. These two algorithms used to diagnose COVID-19 infections rapidly. The AI applications against COVID-19 are Medical Imaging for Diagnosis, Lung delineation, Lesion measurement, Non-Invasive Measurements for Disease Tracking, Patient Outcome Prediction, Molecular Scale: from Proteins to Drug Development and Societal Scale: Epidemiology and Infodemiology.

Protective Attitudes toward Occupational Radiation Exposure among Spine Surgeons in Japan: An Epidemiological Description from the Survey by the Society for Minimally Invasive Spinal Treatment

Background and Objectives: The global trend toward increased protection of medical personnel from occupational radiation exposure requires efforts to promote protection from radiation on a societal scale. To develop effective educational programs to promote radiation protection, we clarify the actual status and stage of behavioral changes of spine surgeons regarding radiation protection. Materials and Methods: We used a web-based questionnaire to collect information on the actual status of radiation protection and stages of behavioral change according to the transtheoretical model. The survey was administered to all members of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spinal Treatment from 5 October to 5 November 2020. Results: Of 324 members of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spinal Treatment, 229 (70.7%) responded. A total of 217 participants were analyzed, excluding 12 respondents who were not exposed to radiation in daily practice. A trunk lead protector was used by 215 (99%) participants, while 113 (53%) preferred an apron-type protector. Dosimeters, thyroid protector, lead glasses, and lead gloves were used by 108 (50%), 116 (53%), 82 (38%), and 64 (29%) participants, respectively. While 202 (93%) participants avoided continuous irradiation, only 120 (55%) were aware of the source of the radiation when determining their position in the room. Regarding the behavioral change stage of radiation protection, 134 (62%) participants were in the action stage, while 37 (17%) had not even reached the contemplation stage. Conclusions: We found that even among the members of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spinal Treatment, protection of all vulnerable body parts was not fully implemented. Thus, development of educational programs that cover the familiar risks of occupational radiation exposure, basic protection methods in the operating room, and the effects of such protection methods on reducing radiation exposure in actual clinical practice is warranted.

Exploring scale in social licence to operate: European perspectives

This article explores the issue of scale in the social licence to operate (SLO) which, to date, is understudied. The community-company relationship is the original, and still predominant, conceptualization of the term with the less tangible society-industry relationship still not typically in focus. Although the literature distinguishes between community and societal scales, there is no research on why the distinction is important, how the two scales are integrated or whether they interact with and influence one another. Exploring scale in SLO is important for theoretical clarification of the concept, for better empirical understanding of the role mining plays in host localities and the broader society and for the potential to incentivize industry toward more responsible and sustainable practices. Europe's multi-layered governance structure combined with its push for more domestic mining activities provides an ideal crucible for debates of scale to play out. To investigate the community and societal scales in the European context within a single study, three main research questions guide the work: how do orientations toward SLO differ at the community and societal scales; how do these orientations influence the acceptance of mining at both scales; and how do these orientations interact and influence one another? Through quantitative analyses, we found that site level factors tend to be important predictors for local communities and more distant society, but broader societal benefits and costs are not important predictors at the local community scale, and are only significant at the societal scale in combination with local factors.

Draudze no jauna un citādāk – reliģijas potenciāls pieaugošas kompleksitātes apstākļos

The Christian church in its current composition, structure, and expression is in crisis. However, the crisis of the congregation and the church that has escalated in recent decades can be understood as a spiritual challenge. This means not only making structural changes in the existing forms of congregation and church, adapting to the changing reality in the context of the current lack of resources, but also paying attention to the spiritual perspective of complex processes of change. How is it possible to think about the congregation and the church in a completely different way? What could be the new forms of plural, lively and open congregation and church that are important for the sustainable development of the whole society? The starting point is to rethink what we mean by the concepts of “congregation” and “church” and what could be the practical forms of religion in the near future – in an individualized, differentiated, and complex society. In 2020, the Internal Development Goals initiative emerged, suggesting that there is one blind spot in the efforts to solve complex societal issues and create a sustainable global society – the internal development of a person and the need for internal change in the person himself. The initiative proposes the idea of a new, inner, consciousness-raising revolution, capable of creating a new foundation for the coexistence of humanity. At the end of 2021, the first part of the initial project was completed, formulating 23 different qualities and skills – in relationships with oneself, thinking and cognition, relations with others and the world, cooperation with others, and in action. As the church and Christianity become involved into and a part of the program for achieving the inner goals of a person, aligning their actions with these goals, and creating the structures necessary to achieve these goals, the church would become one of the driving forces of sustainable development, a kind of “folk high school” for the birth of a new consciousness, gaining new relevance on a societal scale. In this global task of learning and building a metastable civilization, the congregation and the church have a decisive potential. The article discusses the latest insights contributed by several theologians (Uta Pohl-Patalong, Tomáš Halík, etc.) regarding models of the congregation and church relevant to the future of Christianity, and analyses the project Erprobungsräumen of the Evangelical Church of Central Germany, aspiring towards new forms of congregations.

Designing AI‐augmented healthcare delivery systems for physician buy‐in and patient acceptance

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in augmenting healthcare is expected to grow substantially in future decades. Current research in medical AI focuses on developing, validating, and implementing point‐level AI applications in an ad hoc manner. To harness the full power of AI to improve the patient experience and outcomes at a societal scale, however, requires a gestalt shift—with a systematic understanding of AI in the context of healthcare—and so results in its widespread adoption. This translates to four pillars of incorporating AI into healthcare workflow, including physician buy‐in, patient acceptance, provider investment, and payer support (the “4Ps”). To achieve these 4Ps, it is imperative to design AI‐augmented healthcare delivery systems in view of (1) how physicians integrate AI into their clinical practice and (2) how patients perceive the role of AI in healthcare delivery. This will in turn boost provider investment and payer support. In this paper, we draw from the literature to discuss a series of research questions, including barriers to physician buy‐in and patient acceptance, transparency and disclosure, service design, and strategies for increasing AI uptake. We shed light on the principles of purposeful design for AI‐augmented healthcare delivery systems and propose a research agenda for operations management scholars to consider as they continue to strengthen their engagement with both healthcare professionals and AI developers.