Mayo Clinic And Atropos Health Demonstrate How To Employ AI In Healthcare

The excitement over generative AI--and AI in general--has reached the multi-trillion-dollar healthcare industry, driven by the news of ChatGPT passing the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) and the rapid introduction of new healthcare-related AI applications. Bill Gates, for example, is recommending the use of generative AI tools for primary diagnoses of patients. While acknowledging that AI will inevitably misdiagnose patients, Gates argues that the upside is worth it. Preventing misdiagnoses that can impact, at the very least, a patient's quality of life, depends a lot on the quality and availability of the health data that is fed into the AI model. The current excitement notwithstanding, the development of AI healthcare solutions has been severely constrained by the dearth of comprehensive and representative real-world health data.