"If you don't know the questions to ask, you're presenting yourself with risks further down the line."
That was the message from Royal Philips Electronics' chief innovation officer at the 2024 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Global Health Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., last week, when she discussed the potential of artificial intelligence in health care.
In a panel discussion on AI and generative AI, Dr. Claire Bloomfield said health care organizations should "educate and get everyone in the organization involved in understanding what AI is and what it is capable of achieving right from the beginning," NBC News reports.
But Bloomfield said organizations should also be prepared to "roll out and expand into some of the more innovative spaces," such as using AI to instantly detect whether a pathology slide scan is out-of-focus so that it can be immediately rescanned.
"Then later on you can roll out and expand into some of the more innovative spaces," she said.
But not all experts were so sure.
"If you don't know the questions to ask, you're presenting yourself with risks further down the line," said Dr. Rowland Illing, head of global health and chief medical officer at AWS, during the same panel discussion.
Illing said
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