Renee Yao, global healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) startups lead at graphics technology producer Nvidia, hosted an interview on the future direction of AI in healthcare featuring Scott Barclay, partner at venture capital firm Data Collective; Fabien Beckers, founder and chief executive at medical imaging technology developer Arterys; and Chakri Toleti, chief executive and founder at smart device company Care.ai.
Yao enquired as to why it was taking a long time for AI to infiltrate the healthcare industry.
Toleti commented that healthcare providers were focused on providing care and that new technologies needed to reflect this mentality and become part of providers’ workflows.
Beckers agreed and added that workflows had to be proven and information technology support and regulatory compliance in place before implementing AI applications in a healthcare provider setting.
Barclay stated that validation was another hindrance to AI applications in healthcare, adding that the number of applications that were being proven with real data in controlled settings was strong, while the validation of data collected at multiple sites with multivariable settings was poor compared to those with controlled settings.