MedCity News December 29, 2024
The more the use of AI in healthcare and healthcare research becomes mainstream, the more the risks associated with AI-powered analysis evolve — and the greater the potential for breakdowns in consumer trust.
As consumers, we’re prone to give away our health information for free on the internet, like when we ask Dr. Google “how to treat a broken toe.” Yet the idea of our physician using artificial intelligence (AI) for diagnosis based on an analysis of our healthcare data makes many of us uncomfortable, a Pew Research Center survey found.
So how much more concerned might consumers be if they knew massive volumes of their medical data were being uploaded into AI-powered models for analysis in the name...