Healthcare & Technology Research Jam

LIAISON supported this year's Healthcare & Technology Research Jam — a gathering that speaks directly to the project's mission of bringing medical practitioners, technology developers, governance actors, and patients together to treat medical AI as a learning challenge rather than a purely technical one.

Now in its fifth year, the Research Jam has grown from an informal conversation among a small group of researchers into a regular forum for candid, constructive discussion. This year's edition, hosted by KIN Center for Digital Innovation, brought together 35 participants from research institutions across the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Austria, Italy, France, and Argentina.

Two days of scholarly exchange

The fifth edition also marked the second year of the PhD Track, with three parallel sessions covering the organizing, safety, and implementation of healthcare technologies; relational expertise and the reconfiguration of professional boundaries ; and AI in practice as emerging technologies changing knowledge work — a track that sits close to LIAISON's own focus on how AI gets learned and adopted in practice.

Across four plenary sessions, the programme ranged widely: from how digital self-tracking technologies assemble user agency and contested health discourses, to interprofessional coordination and EMR workarounds; from AI drift and governance challenges, to expertise development in gastroenterology, temporal work in quality improvement, and the role of patient online communities in reshaping professional jurisdiction. Every study was met with rich discussion and a wave of questions — exactly the spirit the Jam was built for.

The event was sponsored by SHOC — the Society for Studies in Organizational Healthcare — and the LIAISON project.