The Challenge
AI and Healthcare
Are we really moving towars the best future when it comes to AI and healthcare?
Or are we struggling with tiny pieces of the puzzle without being able to solve the problem as a whole?
Are we really moving towards the best future when it comes to AI and Healthcare?
And who decides how this puzzle will look like when completed or is it really the correct puzzle to solve?
The healthcare system
Challenging the existing healthcare infrastracture is an obstacle that
most healthtech/medtech startups can't overcome
Solutions are built based upon limitations and needs dictated by the existing healthcare system.
But wait...
do we understand
what the real need is?
Are we addressing the correct need...
...Or are we bedazzled by the AI trying to fine tune the technology itself, highly automating small tasks, without actually making a meaningful progress?
Are we struggling with tiny pieces of the puzzle without being able to solve the problem as a whole?
AI and the system's needs
AI steps into the healthcare system's situation trying to make extra time for the doctors, reducing the need for human resources, standardizing procedures by...
... Enabling booking appointments online or scheduling video calls, creating smart assistants converting the conversation into medical notes, building tools analyzing medical images and platforms generating decision trees or devices generating mass amounts of data for each and every patient, etc ...
Who decides how the puzzle will look like when completed?
...And the patient's needs?
AI in healthcare is serving right now the system's needs.Patients are still passive.
Anxiety, doubt and fear are still there. Ignorance dominates.
When patients don't understand what's happening, the mind fills in the gaps. Uncertainty turns into constant symptom checking. Patients nod in the clinic and quietly deviate at home: adjusting doses themselves, stopping medication early, mixing advice from multiple sources.