Healthcare 5.0, an evolution rooted in the principles of Industry 5.0, integrates artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) to deliver hyper-personalised, efficient, and data-driven healthcare services. While these technological advancements significantly enhance operational efficiency and accessibility, however it is contributing a growing crisis of AI-induced digital addiction. This phenomenon poses profound challenges to human-centred care by changing the basic interpersonal interactions within healthcare ecosystems. Drawing upon sociological theories such as technological determinism and symbolic interactionism, this study explores how compulsive dependence on digital platforms undermines the authenticity, wisdom, and empathy inherent in traditional human relationships. The study critically examines the transformation of communication norms, rising social isolation, and weakening social bonds in day-to-day clinical advancements. Furthermore, the research identifies key enablers of digital addiction, including the commodification of attention, persuasive algorithmic design, and reward-based psychological reinforcements that exploit cognitive vulnerabilities. By adopting a multidisciplinary lens, this paper underscores the urgent need for digital literacy, policy intervention, and ethical technological design to safeguard human interactions. It advocates for a recalibration of digital engagement norms within Healthcare 5.0, promoting a balanced approach that aligns technological innovation with preserving authentic human connection and social well-being. Healthcare 5.0 is an evolution that stems from Industry 5.0 and utilises AI, big data, robotics and the Internet of Medical Things to offer hyper-personalised, efficient and data-driven healthcare services. While such technologies improve productivity and widen access to services, it also led to a new digital engagement reality where the pervasive AI impacts mental habits, creating the digital addiction crisis. This challenge transforms human-centred care by fundamentally changing social relations in healthcare systems. Using sociological perspectives like technological determinism and symbolic interactionism, this paper investigates how compulsive reliance on digital devices effects the silence of human touch, which makes life worthwhile. It analyses differing norms under communication in isolation or exclusion of social connection phenomenon, makes life invisible. The research identifies attention commoditization phenomena or algorithmically crafted attention hooks designed and psychologically endorsed reward systems utilising cognitive soft spots as primary debacle of automated prodded behaviour through screens socially termed as digital addiction. Through interdisciplinary lens, this paper aims to highlight sociopsychological and legal aspects to interrogate how Medical Things that offers hyper-personalised and data-driven healthcare services making society complete dependent in contemporary times.

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AI-Induced Digital Addiction: Its Impact on Human Relationships Within Healthcare 5.0 Ecosystems

  • Showkat Ahmad Wani,
  • Ajaz Afzal Lone

摘要

Healthcare 5.0, an evolution rooted in the principles of Industry 5.0, integrates artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) to deliver hyper-personalised, efficient, and data-driven healthcare services. While these technological advancements significantly enhance operational efficiency and accessibility, however it is contributing a growing crisis of AI-induced digital addiction. This phenomenon poses profound challenges to human-centred care by changing the basic interpersonal interactions within healthcare ecosystems. Drawing upon sociological theories such as technological determinism and symbolic interactionism, this study explores how compulsive dependence on digital platforms undermines the authenticity, wisdom, and empathy inherent in traditional human relationships. The study critically examines the transformation of communication norms, rising social isolation, and weakening social bonds in day-to-day clinical advancements. Furthermore, the research identifies key enablers of digital addiction, including the commodification of attention, persuasive algorithmic design, and reward-based psychological reinforcements that exploit cognitive vulnerabilities. By adopting a multidisciplinary lens, this paper underscores the urgent need for digital literacy, policy intervention, and ethical technological design to safeguard human interactions. It advocates for a recalibration of digital engagement norms within Healthcare 5.0, promoting a balanced approach that aligns technological innovation with preserving authentic human connection and social well-being. Healthcare 5.0 is an evolution that stems from Industry 5.0 and utilises AI, big data, robotics and the Internet of Medical Things to offer hyper-personalised, efficient and data-driven healthcare services. While such technologies improve productivity and widen access to services, it also led to a new digital engagement reality where the pervasive AI impacts mental habits, creating the digital addiction crisis. This challenge transforms human-centred care by fundamentally changing social relations in healthcare systems. Using sociological perspectives like technological determinism and symbolic interactionism, this paper investigates how compulsive reliance on digital devices effects the silence of human touch, which makes life worthwhile. It analyses differing norms under communication in isolation or exclusion of social connection phenomenon, makes life invisible. The research identifies attention commoditization phenomena or algorithmically crafted attention hooks designed and psychologically endorsed reward systems utilising cognitive soft spots as primary debacle of automated prodded behaviour through screens socially termed as digital addiction. Through interdisciplinary lens, this paper aims to highlight sociopsychological and legal aspects to interrogate how Medical Things that offers hyper-personalised and data-driven healthcare services making society complete dependent in contemporary times.