Clinical Informatics News May 7, 2019
Clinicians have largely overcome initial fears and doubts about the use of artificial intelligence (AI)—specifically, machine learning (ML) applications—and are now wanting to know what real-world clinical problems it can solve and how to trust it, observes Karley Yoder, senior director of product, Edison AI. “No one is excited about the driverless car because of AI,” she offers as an analogy. “They’re excited about the prospect of less traffic and accidents… the outcomes that it drives.”
In the everyday world of medicine, AI remains a novelty, Yoder says. A raised-hand survey at an AI workshop hosted last August by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering found most of the national and international experts in attendance had used AI...