HEALTH INFORMATICS: AI in health care: a tool for physician leaders

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) in health care is rapidly expanding, with the daily emergence of new initiatives, topics, and critical issues, making it challenging for physician leaders to organize and distill this complex topic. We offer a simple approach that involves classifying topics by three levels of scale: the individual, the organization, and the system or sector. Despite the widespread adoption of AI applications across all aspects of our daily lives, its implementation in health care remains limited. There is a need to engage, in all stages of development, key stakeholders, specifically governments, technology companies, health care providers, patients, and civil society. Cultural, social, and/or regional disparities can impact the integration of AI in health care, reflecting varied beliefs, attitudes, and practices. Our simplified approach to structuring and organizing this complex subject can serve as a valuable tool for physician leaders in conducting more focused discussions with stakeholders and decision-makers.