Kontakt.io at AI Journal: Why Healthcare Today Needs “Boring” AI

Excerpted from Why Healthcare Today Needs “Boring” AI by Rom Eizenberg, CRO at Kontakt.io

The healthcare industry is not short on AI hype. From diagnostic imaging to ambient listening, artificial intelligence has captured a lot of attention and an increasingly larger share of the IT budget. So far, early adopters show strong promise for impacting provider workloads. Will this translate to more cases or relief for overworked physicians? It’s too soon to tell.

For most hospital executives, AI has not had any real impact on daily reality. While AI projects are receiving executive attention worthy of strategic transformations, so far there is little evidence that AI is having a real strategic impact on everyday hospital operations. The key performance indicators that most boardrooms track remain unaffected. But why? Here is one possible answer: what hospitals need is not flashy AI experiences. They need BORING AI: the kind that quietly coordinates, predicts, and acts, completely unnoticed, making things better.

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