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JMIR Res Protoc2026;15e74202.August 4, 2026Journal Article

Building a Global Research Network for Fair, Accountable, Interpretable, and Responsible AI in Emergency Care: Protocol for a FAIR-EC Study.

Chuan Hong1, Jonathan Chong Kai Liew2, Jaeyong Yu3, Tomás Barry4, Audrey L Blewer5,6,7, Daniel M Buckland8, Tianrun Cai9,10, Won Chul Cha11, Bibhas Chakraborty1, Wei Chen12, Jun Cheng13, Shu-Ling Chong14, Therese Djärv15,16, Arul Earnest17, Matthew Engelhard1, Xiuyi Fan18,19, Mengling Feng20,21, Jean Feng22, Huazhu Fu23, Wilson Wen Bin Goh24,25, Benjamin A Goldstein1, Jessica Gronsbell26, Andrew Fu Wah Ho27,28,29, Kendall Ho30, Taku Iwami31, Anjni Joiner8,32, Aaron Kornblith33, Siqi Li34, Shir Lynn Lim20,27,35, Molei Liu36, Zhenghong Liu28, Lei Lu37, Yuan Luo38, Yih Yng Ng18, Yilin Ning34, Yohei Okada27,31, Ju Ok Park39,40, Yu Rang Park41, Junaid Razzak42,43, Yuzeng Shen28, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui27, Peter A D Steel42, Kenneth Boon Kiat Tan28, Salinelat Teixayavong24, Bella Vakulenko-Lagun44, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci32, Grzegorz Waligora45,46, Fei Wang47, Haibo Wang48, Haoyuan Wang49,50, An-Kwok Ian Wong1,32,51, Feng Xie52, Jie Yang53,54,55, Yiye Zhang42, Doudou Zhou56, Li Zhou57, Tingting Zhu58, Robert Neumar59, David Page1, Roger Vaughan60, Marcus Eng Hock Ong27,28, Nan Liu1,34,61
1Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
2Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
3Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.
4School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
5Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
6Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
7Health Services Research and Population Health, Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
8Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
9VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, United States.
10Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
11Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
12School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
13Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.
14KK (Kandang Kerbau) Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
15Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
16Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
17School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
18Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
19College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
20Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
21Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
22Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
23Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore.
24Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
25Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
26Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
27Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
28Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
29Centre for Population Health Research and Implementation, SingHealth, Singapore, Singapore.
30Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
31Department of Preventive Services, School of Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
32Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
33Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
34Centre for Biomedical Data Science, Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore, S169857, Singapore, 65 66016503.
35National University Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
36Department of Biostatistic, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States.
37School of Life Course & Population Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
38Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States.
39College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.
40Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Hospital, Hwaseong-si, Republic of Korea.
41Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
42New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
43Center of Excellence for Trauma and Emergencies, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
44University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
45Gdańsk Medical University, Gdansk, Poland.
46Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
47Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
48Research Centre of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
49Center for Health AI and Synthesis of Evidence (CHASE), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
50The Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
51Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States.
52Department of Surgery, Division of Computational Health Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
53Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States.
54Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States.
55Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.
56Department of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
57Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
58University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
59Department of Emergency Medicine, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
60University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
61NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The current landscape of emergency care (EC) is marked by high demand, leading to issues such as emergency department boarding, overcrowding, and subsequent delays that impact the quality and safety of patient care. Integrating data science into EC can enhance decision-making with predictive, preventative, personalized, and participatory approaches. However, gaps in adherence to fairne…

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