BMJ September 23, 2019
The successful integration of AI into healthcare services must take different focuses depending on local contexts, says Satchit Balsari
Health and Wellness Centers are sprouting up across India—in fact, there will be 150,000 of them. [1] As part of the government of India’s ambitious goal to extend insurance coverage to 500 million citizens, thousands of rural and urban clinics are getting a facelift. I visited one such clinic this July, not far from Bengaluru, India’s IT capital, where we were greeted by freshly painted walls anointed with logos depicting various services offered at the clinic. The telemedicine screen on one such logo hinted at the central role that digital services will be expected to play. The “mid-level healthcare provider”...
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