HealthDataAnswers August 13, 2018
Someone, pop the bubbly. After fifteen years, the American Medical Association (AMA) has released an official statement on AI — a technology that has been gaining steam since 2005. Healthcare AI, once dismissed as a collection of hyper-glamorized algorithms, has won the AMA’s tough-earned recognition. But before tossing confetti, health-techies, quick to err on the side of “machine-everything”, should read the AMA’s statement carefully. While addressing everything from patient outcomes to legal implications, the document concentrates to a fundamental point: If AI is here to stay, so are the physicians that helped train it.
The statement first distinguishes between competing definitions. There are two popular terms for advanced algorithms — artificial and augmented intelligence. While both refer to the same technology, they have dramatically...
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