Benefits and Dangers of AI in Healthcare
These days, one would be hard-pressed to not be aware of the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on virtually every aspect of our lives. When OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the tail end of 2022, all bets were off about when AI would finally arrive.
This is especially true in the healthcare arena, where both the benefits and dangers of AI are continually coming into focus. Every day, there are many news articles published about AI and healthcare, and it can often be hard to keep up.
For those who want to stem the AI tide (for now), a recent Pew Research poll found that 6 in 10 U.S. adults would feel uncomfortable if their own health care provider relied on AI to diagnose disease and recommend treatments.
However, according to this recent Yahoo News article, some doctors are already harnessing AI’s power and potential. Even with AI being used in healthcare settings, it’s important to fully understand its benefits and dangers.
Along these lines, Yahoo News tapped into the insights from MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Marzyeh Ghassemi, and Stanford University’s James Zou – to help us all know the full impact of AI in healthcare.
Here’s a rundown:
What’s currently possible with AI:
Make diagnoses and assessments.
Make prognoses.
Simplify medical information for patients.
What AI could do in the future:
Organize healthcare data.
Predict bad care outcomes.
Improve treatment response predictions.
Develop new drugs.
Danger of AI in healthcare:
Replication of poor care.
Increase in medical errors.
Potential misinformation around care.
The unethical collection of healthcare data.
Although we are in the earliest phases of AI use in healthcare, it’s good for all organizations in the full care ecosystem to fully understand today’s precipice of change.
It’s clear that AI is already transforming healthcare, and we will be continually highlighting key AI-related updates on the RosettaHealth blog.
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