Helping Healthcare Professionals Evaluate AI Offerings

Steve Weber AJ Grotto The following is a guest article by Steve Weber, Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley, and AJ Grotto, Director, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at Stanford University Generative artificial intelligence technologies promise to improve healthcare in large part by enabling healthcare professionals to utilize massive troves of health-relevant data. They will fuel improvements across the healthcare value chain, starting with a better understanding of physiology and disease, to efficiencies in disease management, treatment protocols, and even billing and reimbursement. The technology companies facilitating this push into AI-powered health services know that strengthening their footholds in the health sector could mean a significant windfall. But what matters most is what’s good for patients, and that means caution is warranted. Putting patients first means that health systems, their government partners, and regulators need to look at companies’ security and interoperability track records to ensure the technologies being adopted keep patients’ private records safe and usable across providers. Competition, then, is an important aspect of this focus on patients. Regardless of arguments about natural monopolies and standards, it is far too early in the game for any single solution to be permitted to dominate the market. To its credit, the healthcare industry has digitized at a remarkable rate: 96% of hospitals in the United Stat...
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