Don’t just hope for health innovation equity - make sure it happens

AMA leaders took their message that health technology needs to work for physicians and promote health equity to the HIMSS Global Health Conference. The AMA is also looking to ensure that augmented intelligence (AI) often called artificial intelligence and other digital health tools are integrated into health care practice in a manner that advances health equity rather than diminishes it. And the way to do both is to have physicians involved on the front end when these IT products are created, said Bobby Mukkamala, MD, the immediate past chair of the AMA Board of Trustees. “We identify opportunities to integrate the perspective of practicing physicians into the development of this hence, our presence here is huge, so that we can influence the development of your work product and help us take care of our patients,” said Dr. Mukkamala, an otolaryngologist in Flint, Michigan.