Barry Stein, Hartford HealthCare’s Chief Clinical Innovation and Medical Informatics Officer and founder of the Center for AI Innovation in Healthcare, says he has a good idea where AI will be going this year. AI is poised to do big things in healthcare this year, according to Hartford HealthCare’s Barry Stein, MD, MBA. The key will be in moving beyond the hype and actually making an impact on clinical care. Stein, the health system’s VP, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, as well as founder of the Hartford HealthCare’s Center for AI Innovation in Healthcare, says healthcare leaders need to see AI as part of an ecosystem. And it will only work in healthcare if it all the right safeguards are in place. “We approach AI in the same way as we approach a new device, a new robot, or a new drug,” he says. “People think just because it’s software, it doesn’t have the same potential impact as a new drug or a new robot or a new device. It has as much upside. If you can leverage it to the fullest and you know how to use it, and it has equal amount of downside if you don’t know how to use it and you give it to the wrong person and you don’t know what’s going on. So with a new device and a new drug, you have to know how it works.” googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(“dfp-ad-hl_native1”); }); Beyond that plea for governance, Stein says…
