As president of Health Quality Advisors LLC and as a researcher, writer and speaker, I focus on quality of care, patient empowerment and digital health. I spent three decades as adjunct faculty at Northwestern University after writing the pathbreaking book Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age.
The Civic Federation of Chicagoformally launched on March 5 with the ambitious promise by its chief executive to be “the trusted source and curator of best practices of AI in health.”
The Civic Federation knew it needed clout and credibility. Initial members included a famous “consumer advocate” and powerful business leaders. CHAI’s initial partners include a respected consumer group, the National Health Council, and powerful private-sector stakeholders such as Google, Microsoft and the Mayo Clinic.
This process is much the same as that secretly used by the National Security Agency – like in health care, ostensibly for citizens’ own good – that was. In health care, the algorithms’ predictive accuracy has never been subjected to transparent, third-party scrutiny for either bias or effectiveness. All of that is vitally necessary and certainly benefits the public. However, emerging AI tools are starting to provide patients with the kind of personalized, timely and reliable health information previously reserved for professionals. That kind of AI use, which threatens to profoundly disrupt the role of the doctor, is,
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