[rngname22]

No, the problem with AI in healthcare is that like much of healthtech is that it further reduces the ability of providers (especially in hospital settings) to respond to fluid and evolving situations that may fall outside the dotted lines that the AI understands or scenarios the system allows you to work within. Specifically, it creates further red tape that providers need to worry about, more checkboxes on an iPad to be clicked, more time required per patient on administrivia.

It could be done well but it will be done poorly, will increase the burden of front-line workers while making administrators feel like they can say they accomplished a big project this year. At the end of the day rather than making healthcare more auditable, practitioners will learn to just quickly fill in bogus data on the new system so they can go deal with the patient that's coding and when the AI gives a recommendation a provider doesn't like they'll just ignore it anyway.

In a good system that wasn't falling apart at the seams, AI in healthcare would be a boon, but in a broken system that's falling apart and failing its front-line workers, it will just serve as a distraction and another burden.

[pythko]

I think what you described falls under #2 in my reply. “Doing it well” is not a trivial option that people are ignoring; “doing it well” is the thing people are trying to solve. AI is not a magic bullet that always makes everything better.