Data Transparency and Curation Vital to Success of Healthcare AI

Amid advances in precision medicine, healthcare is facing the twin challenges of having to curate and tailor the use of patient data to drive genomics-powered breakthroughs. That was the takeaway from the AI & data sciences track of last week's Precision Medicine World Conference in Santa Clara, California. "There aren't a lot of physicians saying, 'Bring me more AI,' " said John Mattison, MD, emeritus CMIO and assistant medical director of Kaiser Permanente. "Every physician is saying bring me a safer and more efficient way to deliver care." Mattison recalled his prolonged conversations with the original developers of IBM's Watson AI technology.