AI-Driven Medical Care? A Health Data Reality Check
coalition to fight against health care misinformation at the Health Datapalooza tech conference.AcademyHealth
Yes, ChaptGPT was able to pass the medical licensing exam. But if one theme dominated the recent Health Datapalooza tech conference, it was that the underlying health data infrastructure in America remains a lot closer to “no intelligence” than “artificial intelligence.”
Whether the speakers were individuals working in government, for health systems and insurers or for physician groups, they all sounded a similar note of frustration. We need to know which data innovations actually result in better care, is how Dr. Lisa Simpson, president of conference sponsor AcademyHealth put it, but we don’t.
“It’s almost as if we designed a system designed not to answer the question,” sai...