Healthcare Finance News August 22, 2024
Susan Morse

The health system has invested in automating documentation, but AI chief tells WSJ he’s not comfortable using AI for clinical decision-making.

Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Daniel Yang, who is vice president of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published yesterday that he wouldn’t feel comfortable using AI to automate clinical decision making in diagnosis or treatment.

Infrastructure for AI has not kept up with development, Yang said. The haves – the large health systems such as Kaiser, have the scale for AI implementation while smaller, rural health systems do not have the same advantages, he told WSJ.

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