AI in Healthcare January 23, 2025
Healthcare healthcare AI finds itself in 2025 pregnant with possibilities yet surrounded by pitfalls. Given the precarious excitement of the moment—or is it exciting precarity?—policymakers and healthcare leaders must set directives guiding not only what to do but also when to do it.
They’re offered assistance in a paper published in Health Affairs Jan. 22.
“The field of artificial intelligence has entered a new cycle of intense opportunity, fueled by advances in deep learning, including generative AI,” write lead author Michael Matheny, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt and 11 colleagues from 10 organizations in introducing their material. “Applications of recent advances affect many aspects of everyday life, yet nowhere is it more important to use this technology safely, effectively and...