AI has come to healthcare: What are the pitfalls and opportunities?

From self-driving cars to virtual travel agents, artificial intelligence has quickly transformed the landscape for nearly every industry. The technology is also employed in healthcare to help with clinical decision support, imaging and triage. However, using AI in a healthcare setting poses a unique set of ethical and logistical challenges. MobiHealthNews asked health tech vet Muhammad Babur, a program manager at the Mayo Clinic, about the potential challenges and ethics behind using AI in healthcare ahead of his upcoming discussion at HIMSS22. MobiHealthNews: What are some of the challenges to using AI in healthcare? Babur: The challenges that we face in healthcare are unique and more consequential.