Decisions made by AI versus transparency: Who wins in healthcare?

Artificial intelligence (“AI”), fuelled by the increasing availability of healthcare data and rapid progress in analytics techniques, is bringing a paradigm shift to healthcare. “AI is getting increasingly sophisticated at doing what humans do but more efficiently, more quickly and at a lower cost.” By analysing data, AI can detect anomalies, make predictions, do real-time tracking, find correlations and thus make better and faster deci- sions. Due to constant self-learning and self-correcting mechanisms, AI provides greater accuracy.3 Thus, AI systems can reduce the diagnostic and therapeutic errors that are inevitable in human clinical practice. Analysing huge pools of data enables AI to find unexpected correlations and insights, which can be used to discover new therapeutic techniques, find causes of diseases and identify ways to prevent them. The benefits of AI use in healthcare are numerous and prominent.