AI won’t fix healthcare until we fix the infrastructure
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Infrastructure is easy to overlook and underinvest in. Roads, bridges, and electrical grids fade into the background, until a failure makes them impossible to ignore.
The same is becoming true for AI in healthcare. Over the past several years, health systems have developed or investigated hundreds of AI solutions. Many are showing strong technical performance but limited clinical or operational impact. Some have proved incompatible with existing systems; others couldn’t scale beyond pilots.
As general-purpose AI like ChatGPT and Gemini make its way into people's everyday lives today, domain-specific ones like AI in cancer are also advancing, with only funding and critical infrastructure standing in the way of clinical use, according to one…
Researchers at McGill University have developed an AI tool that can identify rare groups of cells responsible for driving aggressive cancer progression. The tool, called SIDISH, offers a new way to distinguish which cells within a tumour are most strongly…