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Summary
When it comes to the ways artificial intelligence can improve health care, the opportunities are seemingly limited only by imagination. One of the first steps is breaking down the barriers that prevent the collection and sharing of accurate, unbiased data. We know that primary care providers, for example, spend an inordinate amount of their time in front of the the patient’s electronic health record. A.I. tools need better explainability and ways to show why they’re making their recommendations. If done properly and communication between currently siloed sectors of the health care system improves. A.I. could help eliminate the medical gaps between socioeconomic populations in the United States. If you happen to have money, insurance, resources, and access, you get better care than anywhere in the world.
Show Notes
When it comes to the ways artificial intelligence can improve health care, the opportunities are seemingly limited only by imagination. It’s broken the trust between the population and our health care system.” Coming from the academic side, Stanford associate professor of medicine Dr. Tina Hernandez Boussard said there needs to be more thought put into how A.I. One of the biggest threats facing health care is the burnout of clinicians and the shortage of providers. “It’s very hard when you give a clinician or health care system an outcome or prediction without any information to support it,” said Hernandez Broussard. Where we really need to see it is in the community setting, in rural hospitals.
