Healthcare AI Has to Earn Clinicians’ Trust
Mayo Clinic June 29, 2023
The Coalition for Health AI was created to help end users separate trustworthy, useful technology from technology that only seems to move us in the right direction.
By John Halamka, M.D., President, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform.
“Pink Pills for Pale People.” You probably don’t recall the ad for this patent medicine, which was very popular in the early 20th century as a cure for nervous headaches, rheumatism, ataxia, palpitations, and pale complexion. Like many patent medicines being marketed at the time, the ad was based on a kernel of truth. It contained iron sulfate, which would have relieved the pallor brought on by iron deficiency anemia. Unfortunately, like many...