AI has significant potential to help improve healthcare. It can (hopefully) save lives, improve the work and job satisfaction of health professionals’, and make health systems more people centred.
It can help address some of health’s largest challenges including a depleted and disheartened workforce, future threats to public health, ageing populations, and increasing complexity of health due to co-morbidities.
So, bring it on. The advantages look clear.
However, the arrival of AI does mean an incredible amount of personal data will br sloshing sabout the various system and putting people at risk of their personal (and valuable data being borrowed or stolen by 'bad actors'.
There is also a risk of assuming that all data being fed to the AI agents is of high quality - but, especially in the early days of healthcare AI, this may not be the case. AI trained ion poor quality data is not effective and may put patients at risk and lesd to biased or skewed results.
So governments their agencies and their technology partners have the triple. tasks of creating effective and efficient AI system to provide the claimed benefits, ensuring that data is used appropriately, whilst simultaneously protecting the vast data sources and stores that will arise.
Do we trust them to be able tro do that?
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