Is perfection necessary for AI in healthcare?

Great Ormond Street Hospital's Dr Shankar Sridharan shares his take on AI application in healthcare and user responsibilities.

AI may be optimally applied in healthcare settings without overstepping human boundaries. 

"When it comes to AI, I still apply principles of the physician’s Hippocratic Oath but repurposed – AI shall do no harm, we will maintain equity and confidentiality, and above all, a human must be kept in the loop," shared Dr Shankar Sridharan, the chief clinical information officer at Great Ormond Street Hospital, United Kingdom. He spoke in the plenary session, "Deploying Generative AI in Clinical Environments," at HIMSS24 APAC.

"Perfection [in AI] is not necessarily great; it abdicates the responsibility of the user. AI is already faster, but it can be kinder and safer – kinder to pay attention to the patients that we [doctors] check, and safer when a human is always kept in the loop to verify the AI."

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