Sometimes when you're considering how to bring the power of AI to a clinical context, it sort of takes a new way of thinking to get inspired about what’s possible.
So what about a new way of looking at medical AI? To me, Ava Amini at Microsoft Research really articulates this kind of framework and this kind of goal when it comes to, in her words, “precision medicine” and “precision health,” and the marriage of biology and AI for good. She has described the effort this way:
Too often, we are treated, as she points out, like an “instance in a population” instead of a unique human being. And of course, clinical science is data-driven, and that’s a good thing, but assuming that all patients are is sort of oversimplifying things and maybe making us miss something. In fact, I know a lot of good doctors who would clam this assertion, too, saying that you start with the medical journals, but you also meet your patient where they are.