Dear HIFA colleagues,
As Dr Tedros says: "AI is already playing a role in diagnosis and clinical care, drug development, disease surveillance, outbreak response, and health systems management... The future of healthcare is digital, and we must do what we can to promote universal access to these innovations and prevent them from becoming another driver for inequity."
https://www.who.int/teams/digital-health-and-innovation/harnessing-artif...
Specifically, WHO states: “Through collaborative efforts and pooled investments, we aim to create a global community of experts and resources that foster knowledge sharing and collective action, accelerating the impact of AI in healthcare.”
I see HIFA as having a role in providing an interdisciplinary space for exploration of these issues, as part of our 3-year collaboration plan with WHO and our wider remit. I look forward to your comments.
Best wishes, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org