New infographic highlights key insights from the REALM Patient Workshop

REALM has published a new infographic summarising the key findings from the Stakeholder Workshop: Patient Group and Medical Charity Perspectives on the Evaluation of Medical AI, held on 19 March 2026 in Brussels, Belgium.

The event brought together nine representatives of patient organisations and medical research charities from five European countries. Participants explored two REALM demonstrator cases — PGx2P, a pharmacogenomics-informed prescribing support system, and COPowereD, an AI-based tool for predicting COPD exacerbations — before engaging in structured discussions on trust, regulation and the evaluation of medical AI.

The workshop highlighted several key themes:

• trust in medical AI must be actively earned through transparency, explainability, and meaningful human oversight;
• regulation should be both robust and adaptive to technological innovation;
• evaluation frameworks should move beyond technical performance to include quality of life, usability, fairness, representativeness, and real-world patient experience;
• patient perspectives should play a central role in shaping future AI governance and evaluation practices.

The findings from the workshop will contribute to the development of REALM’s best practice guidelines and living-lab activities.

We would like to sincerely thank all participants for sharing their expertise, experiences and perspectives. Their contributions are helping ensure that patient voices remain at the heart of discussions on the future of medical AI.

The infographic is openly available and may be freely downloaded, shared and disseminated through websites, newsletters and other communication channels.

Download the infographic here - https://realm-ai.eu/resources

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20124393