TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  Baffoni, Laura
T1  -  Artificial intelligence, health literacy, and sex and gender specific medicine: navigating the new paradigm in the physician-patient relationship
PY  -  2026
Y1  -  2026-11-01
DO  -  10.1701/4802.48274
JO  -  Recenti Progressi in Medicina
JA  -  Recenti Prog Med
VL  -  117
IS  -  11
SP  -  501
EP  -  504
PB  -  Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore
SN  -  2038-1840
Y2  -  2026/11/04
UR  -  http://dx.doi.org/10.1701/4802.48274
N2  -  Summary. The digital revolution, spearheaded by generative artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming healthcare working practice, patient behaviors and doctor-patient relationship. At this crossroads, public health frameworks must remain equitable and sustainable. This paper explores how AI, health literacy (HL) deficits, and Sex and Gender-Specific Medicine (SGSM) impact clinical relationship. Although AI promises enhanced efficiency, current models are trained on datasets heavily affected by bias, compromising diagnostic appropriateness for female patients and minorities. To safeguard equity, a focus on training is needed: citizens must develop appropriate HL and progressively digital HL while physicians must develop “algorithmic literacy” and resist delegating clinical listening to AI agents. In this context, SGSM emerges as an essential precision framework. By recognizing that communication is an active component of treatment and that neither doctor nor patient is a neutral operator, medicine can reclaim its humanistic core through targeted, lifelong education.
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